It is a liberal newspaper, and it reflects a liberal bias, true. Journalism attracts liberals in the same way of surpassing and surprising support of young people for Sanders and Trump, tired of being lied to by both parties to get them to vote against their interests. Liberalism seems to be in ascendancy and the NYT only reflects it.
I agree you have accurately identified the liberal bias of the NYT. Further I agree that journalism attracts liberals too. I might add that it attracts liberals who want to use their profession to bring about what they believe is positive change.
What bugs me is the journal pretend a moral duty of the truth when in reality it is not even close to true. It is the lack of intellectual honesty that offends me to the core.
A third point we agree on is that both Trump and Bernie are the result of a frustrated electorate with the party status quo. It is a poor commentary on our current state of politics that they were the two outsiders options that are most prominent.
A fourth point which I agree in part is that liberalism seems to be in ascendancy. The wonderful white lies of communism/socialism are sugar compared to actual hard work, personal discipline and perseverance. Blaming the other guy (Hitler, National Socialism - Bernie Democrat Socialism) works for demagogues.
Ask the Greeks and Venezuelans how the promises of socialism turned out. The reality is sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Bad leaders will never run out of people to blame for the problem to motivate their voters. Both sides find their bogeymen to motivate the uncommitted into fear or hatred.
A reasonably insured Capitalist system sucks, but it sucks less then the other options.
Representative Democracy sucks, but it sucks less then the other options.
