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I agree with your assessment that this blog you read is biased. Generally, it is understood that Blogs tend to have a narrative or lean heavily on one topic or opinion. Though the blog you read was heavily biased, I don’t believe that is reason alone to dismiss its claims. For example,

“The opinion that Democrats treat The New York Times as the gospel.”

This might be hyperbole, however, one would be hard pressed to find a democrat that didn’t take everything the New York Times prints at face value. Liberals praise the New York Times as being a reliable credible source of non partisan news. Perhaps democrats choose to ignore New York Times left leaning bias because their journalists views and articles comfortably coincide with their own world view.

Another example of bias you site is the bloggers opinion that “the Democratic Party is well on its way to marginalizing itself as an effective opposition party.” Even Democrats are worried about their sphere of influence. The DNC was rendered more ineffective after WikiLeaks revealed conspiring favoritism of Hillary, and cheating that took place during the primary. The Democrat party is already showing signs of loosing political influence. This opinion could at least be considered quantifiably true given the record number of republicans holding seats in office.

 The next opinion “Democrats are fueled by substance-less ideals and not offering plausible alternative policies;” sounds rather alarming and I would consider very far right as far as opinion goes. That said it is not without some merit as well.

Under the Obama administration our government enacted liberal policies that resulted in more income inequality, and an increase in the number of people on food stamps and other welfare programs. Under Democrat policies we just went through the worst recovery since the great depression. Minimum wage as a way to lift people out of poverty is one of those substance-less ideals. The unintended consequences of creating more unemployment, more expensive goods and services, and pricing young and low skilled people out of the labor market is certainly not a plausible solution to poverty.

You said you fear blogs like these because of how one sided their views are. The Fact of the matter is, blogs are going to be one sided and biased. This day and age it has become the norm to read or watch something that is one sided rather then impartial. Readers need to be educated in how to source information, recognize bias, and get to what’s truth and fact, separate from the Hyperbole and vilifying. I do agree that readers can be mislead and I think that it is a real problem that low information, intellectually lazy citizens, are taking blog sites at face value. May I suggest that its not bias that is the problem. Everyone is going to have their own bias, especially when it comes to politics. It is, and I agree with you, a huge problem to claim your unbiased when you’re not. What is important is that bloggers are up front about the perspective and bias lens they are receiving information through, and not purport to be giving a neutral bipartisan perspective; like the New York Times does. The real problem I believe is that readers need to be more skeptical and read opinions on every side before they cast their own judgments. You should not dismiss something outright because its presenting an opposing view. We should all be judging peoples claims and arguments based on their individual merit and consider all sides of the argument. In the case of the article you reviewed the authors claims are not outside of truth or reality, however biased or hyperbolic they are.