2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary has spent most of her political career denying she's a liberal [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)for 25 years she's been a lightning rod for the right's attack machine and war on women.
if we want more wellstones, sanders, and warrens in politics it's up to us citizens to create a political and media environment where more exceptional and fearless citizens can run and win and function effectively in government without having to worry about family safety and raising huge amounts of money.
one way the left has totally let such people down and completely fucked up is by completely ignoring the right's most important weapon- 1000 coordinated radio stations reaching 50 mil a week with whatever their think tanks want to pump through them.
400 ignorant scripted loudmouths screaming the same lies distortions and exaggerations from stations licensed to operate in the public interest, and at least 25% of them allowed to parasitize over 90 major publicly funded university sports programs to help them sell their lies.
as long as the left gives rw radio a free speech free ride and keeps underestimating the right's most important weapon they will control messaging in the US. they will decide what and who is 'acceptable' for america, and how much compromising a democratic politician has to do to win or get anything done.
if bernie is the nominee those 1000 radio stations will be lying about him and obstructing him on behalf of the billionaires he threatens. and if the left is still ignoring them the billionaires and their servants will have the confidence to try anything because they know they'll be able to sell it to tens of millions before the left starts seeing it on fox or the sunday morning shows.
and the left will not deserve bernie because we won't be getting his back.
and if hillary is the nominee i'll certainly be voting for her.