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Journalist and academic Stan Grant has taken shots at “political elites” in the United States, as well as coverage of the US election, in a speech made at a social cohesion conference in western Sydney.

The former host of ABC’s Q+A told attendees that neither Donald Trump or Kamala Harris were the answer to the “existential crisis of America” and then made reference to Robin Hood:

The American political elites have turned their backs on poor Americans. They are bought and paid for by lobbyists. They pass laws that put more money into rich people’s hands. Healthcare is a scandal. Machines are making people redundant. Big pharma has people hooked on drugs.

If we think that Harris or Trump are going to be the answer to the existential crisis of America, then we need to know that the Sheriff of Nottingham has taken up residence in Washington DC, and the good cops have left town. Robin Hood is nowhere to be seen.
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Stan Grant in 2023.

Stan Grant in 2023. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
He said coverage of the election had been “abominable” in that “every lie” and “every hatred” has been “amplified.” He said the media has only been interested in the outrage and star power of the campaigns, and less so the people “holding that broken country together”.

I barely watched much of the news coverage because it has been abominable.

Every lie is amplified, every hatred is broadcast. And I’m just not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about the entire picture. If we reduce the American election to just an idea of who may be more decent or who has bad manners, but better manners, we’re missing the point.

The point is that we are talking about a nation where human beings are expendable and the media doesn’t tell us that story because they’re too interested in the latest entertainment, the latest pop star, the latest movie star, the latest business person, the latest Trump outrage, the latest inane comment from Kamala Harris, and never speak to the people who were doing the back-breaking, dirty, gut-busting work of holding that broken country together while politicians have absolutely exploited them.
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Rubashov said:
Journalist and academic Stan Grant has taken shots at “political elites” in the United States, as well as coverage of the US election, in a speech made at a social cohesion conference in western Sydney.

The former host of ABC’s Q+A told attendees that neither Donald Trump or Kamala Harris were the answer to the “existential crisis of America” and then made reference to Robin Hood:


Stan Grant in 2023.

Stan Grant in 2023. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
He said coverage of the election had been “abominable” in that “every lie” and “every hatred” has been “amplified.” He said the media has only been interested in the outrage and star power of the campaigns, and less so the people “holding that broken country together”.
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This guy gets it. But nothing will change. Not sure how we can ever get a catalyst for real change, tbhwy. Until we get a group of politicians willing to ignore the money they can make by catering to lobbyists in order to put the people first. But who is that really? The only one I see even a little of that in is Pete Buttigieg. But he has the fatal flaw that minimum half of Americans will never vote for regardless of what's actually best for the country. Crazy that it's Christianity that enabled the takeover of the country, by and large. Such an easily manipulated cult.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This guy gets it. But nothing will change. Not sure how we can ever get a catalyst for real change, tbhwy. Until we get a group of politicians willing to ignore the money they can make by catering to lobbyists in order to put the people first. But who is that really? The only one I see even a little of that in is Pete Buttigieg. But he has the fatal flaw that minimum half of Americans will never vote for regardless of what's actually best for the country. Crazy that it's Christianity that enabled the takeover of the country, by and large. Such an easily manipulated cult.
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Stan Grant is an interesting character. Look him up
 
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