A method you may establish the leftist tilt on NPR stations is by listening to the callers which are taken on NPR-distributed discuss exhibits. On the newest episode of Left, Proper, and Middle, popping out of KCRW out of California, the host (or “heart”) David Greene set the agenda with a paranoid leftist caller. The “left” panelist, Mo Eleithee, was lamenting our “hyper-polarized occasions” the place the “incentive construction” is for each Democrats and Republicans to keep away from making compromises with one another.
Then got here the “hyper-polarizing” caller, chosen by Greene, a former NPR information anchor, 41 minutes in:
DAVID GREENE: We’ve bought a query I needed to play from one among our listeners about watching this development of each events getting away from any incentive to make compromises. Right here he’s.
CALLER: Hello, that is Dan Buggy [ph] calling from San Diego. After listening to this week’s episode, I began pondering extra about how this may all unfold. Contemplating that Congress has abdicated its function as a co-equal department of presidency, and that the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Courtroom, has been strategically formed by Republicans, I’ve a moderately scary thought I can not shake.
If nationwide politicians are actually simply extra centered on management than governance, what’s to cease Trump and the present Republican majority and the Supreme Courtroom from additional dismantling the checks and balances our founders created, altering election guidelines, and even extending energy indefinitely? It sounds excessive, and I get they in all probability must do it earlier than the midterms, however democracies do not collapse in a single day, they erode over time, and I really feel like ours has been eroding considerably ever since Obama was elected, and it grew to become about each side blocking agendas as an alternative of discovering compromise in transferring us ahead. Am I being paranoid, or is that this an actual concern?”
Greene did not discover it paranoid in any respect: “Fascinating, he takes the lengthy view. He’s not trying on the final 5, six weeks, lots of people freaking out over Trump. He has seen a development over time, since President Obama was elected. Does he have a degree? Is his concern justified?”
When Democrats lose, they continually insist Democracy Is Ending. Fortunately, the “proper” panelist, Sarah Isgur, shot that query down. Whereas she preferred the priority over a scarcity of bipartisanship, she argued the Supreme Courtroom has been curbing the ability of the chief department from Obama by Trump and thru Biden.
