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In reply to the discussion: Thomas Frank: Dems have gone from the party of the New Deal to a party defending mass inequality [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)or good liberal candidates, trying to push the dem party
if the protest gets noticed, the blowhards, nationally or locally, get the talking point or distraction or well designed PR attack and they can blast it out there as long as it takes. long after the protestors go home.
the most effective progressives get attacked/swiftboated, locally or nationally - they give it to limbaugh and hannity, or the local blowhards, like the ones helping scott walker so well - as the first batch of emails showed.
or consider all the dem legislation trying to fix the problem that's been obstructed by the tea party. the tea party is nothing more than the dittoheads/ talk radio party renamed by the kochs.
the left is ignoring the fact that a few loud think tank coordinated jerks and liars are louder than they are - the media nor the corporate dems need to listen to them.
want reform? there will be no major reform until the left recognizes how loud they are, and out progressive groups and dems are wasting our donations and vol time as long as they do nothing.
dems are limited to reacting because they're ignoring 1200 coordinated radio stations that are the real bully pulpit, controlling the national buzz, making molehills into mountains and visa versa. dems are always playing catch up because they don't know what the right is doing until after the alternate reality has been created and it's been pounded into the earhole of 50,000 a week.
at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, deregulation, hate, and swiftboating
dems have to go on the offensive and they can win supermajorities.
all major issues can be protested at these 90 universities , which have no excuse for supporting 270 limbaugh stations.
the left has to stop ignoring rw radio and they can get supermajorities in nov