and in the article, they also quoted something jimmy hoffa jr. said, head of the teamsters. and he said something like we're going to kill them in the next election. and these were seen as violent rhetoric. and i wrote to the reporter, basically expressing my frustration that he wasn't getting it right. that reality was not being represented. and if i may, i'll quota few sentences wrote back to me because i think it's a really outstanding -- it's really an outstanding example of just how this normative shift looks like. in like 2011 or 2012 now. he said 50 years ago, the media was empowered to create a reality which tracked the liberal consensus of the time, very much one that luce i think supported even though he didn't like fdr, supporting the welfare state, government intervention, intellectualism and so on. some agreed, some different. now conservatives dictate the reality. in their formulation, government is a monster. poor people are sinners and the whole world is out to get minute brave enough to say so. some agree, some don't. my question is what is the difference? i