Politicology

Ever since I cut the cord four+ years ago, I don’t get my news from TV. In fact, when I go to my Mother’s, it irritates me to have to see 5:00 local news from a station that I know has an extreme bias. I guess it would be correct to say I get my news through Substacks and podcasts that I have chosen for their analysis. I know their bias ahead of time. There is no “truth” in news.

Ron was always a bit heterodox but the shows were informative balanced and had energy. Now Ron sounds lifeless and sounds more like a tech bro than the last few years. I gave up my paid subscription two years ago when Ron was basically negative on nearly every topic on his weekly roundup. Now it’s not even balanced. I get that there is more money to be made from criticizing but it’s not from me.

I have been an avid listener for the last several years and have found comfort in your words and insights. Since the election though, I’ve noticed that you and your guests are sanewashing trump and his hangers-on rather than calling out the utter disruption and disgrace that is occurring in our country. The fact that your latest episode included a lengthy “policy” segment, shows me that you are the latest to capitulate to the “nothing to see here folks, it’s all fine” camp. This is not a normal time and shame on you for normalizing the abnormal and abhorrent.

The latest episode reveals that this podcast has finished its sad descent into un-American attitudes by condoning the January 6th attacks. I’m all for different perspectives but some perspectives are not valid. For example, if I was hosting a math podcast, it would be foolish of me to have someone on who says 2+2=47283. There’s just some lines that cannot be crossed and this podcast has crossed a line that has reveled itself to be un-American.