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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Republican outrage? [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)it was 9 years of unchallenged rw radio - freee market! it's going to lower cable costs! liberal media, etc.- that set the table for a republican congress to pass it and pushing clinton into signing the deregulation in 96.
dem party STILL ignores it even though obama mentioned it numerous times. but it was the left who really fucked up - that's who it hurt the most, allowing it to push everything in the country 20 pts to the right. all the left had to do is get atttention to it - total boycott of ALL of it's advertisers and protesting the 88 universities that endorse it by broadcasting sports on it.
then dem party will notice and it will help get more sanders, warrrens and wellstones there, without that massive unchallenged buzz pushing the party right and forcing compromise.
for instance voter suppression laws were passed because of the pretext based on 15+ years of rw radio yammering about dem voter fraud and illegal immigrants voting, etc