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Scruffy1

(3,252 posts)
14. The MSM Victory was appalling.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 05:25 AM
Mar 2016

It's like Hillary and Donald Trump are working together with the MSM to screw us again. Her real campaign slogan will be "at least I'm not Trump". So we proles can go eat shit. The Democratic Party is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the oligarchy. My precinct in a working class neighborhood brought in 84% for Bernie, but the low information voters, aka as TV watchers will pull the Party line and vote in another neocon warmonger. I've never heard a Hillary supporter talk about policy yet. The hate for her across the United States comes from both the left and the right. It will mean more of the same in a dysfunctional Congress controlled by Pukes and massive polarization. I think it's the end of the Democratic Party, or maybe it's been dead a long time. The hillary supporters are sometimes worse than the Trumpies, and sometimes just nice people who are dazzled by the idea of a woman President. Just like we were dazzled by a well spoken African american. Next we'll probably get a gay neocon.
I've lived a long time and watched the country I grew up in, worked in, raised a family in fall to pieces little by little. Our inner cities are a disaster, our roads and bridges are obsolete, our mass transit is pathetic, and we face the biggest threat in the history of the human race in global warming, which she never even mentions. And so the voters will approve a continued foreign policy of
"if we don't like we will bomb it". and all the of us proles are supposed to shut the fuck up and wave the fucking flag while our chocolate rations are "increased".
Yes I know the left has always been a minority in the Democratic Party, but it has been an important part that makes the phone calls, goes canvassing and sways voters. The mass exodus after this media and part run debacle will be the end. Many are already gone and the media myth of the "independents" being in the middle will continue. As for me I've had enough. Putting up a for sale sign and leaving the USA.

The Status Quo won geomon666 Mar 2016 #1
The fairness doctrine. Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #2
Also, The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed corporate media to consolidate and monopolize. Snotcicles Mar 2016 #13
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #22
Indeed. nt Snotcicles Mar 2016 #37
Yup. But the Fairness Doctrine isn't coming back KPN Mar 2016 #25
It's not a bug, it's a feature. Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #33
He gets it. We get it, you get it RobertEarl Mar 2016 #3
These people won: Lucky Luciano Mar 2016 #4
Pretty much. Shadowflash Mar 2016 #28
Maybe it's just the optimist in me... ladyVet Mar 2016 #5
Great post. Thanks so much. JDPriestly Mar 2016 #11
Kudos ladyvet! KPN Mar 2016 #26
And yet EVERY TIME I suggest a letter writing campaign to the media outlets...crickets Lorien Mar 2016 #6
The "Flush Rush" campaign ruined Limbaugh. We can do the same to shows Lorien Mar 2016 #7
msm's days are numbered hopemountain Mar 2016 #8
No they won't. Not without action on our parts Lorien Mar 2016 #9
you do know who owns the msm, right? hopemountain Mar 2016 #10
Hit the corporations and MSM where it hurts TrueDemVA Mar 2016 #18
You are right. KPN Mar 2016 #29
I've asked for the same thing and got no response. I've asked people, esp Berners to turn off jillan Mar 2016 #23
The NY Times taught us something about the new media verses the print media. LiberalArkie Mar 2016 #34
Yes, we should do that. KPN Mar 2016 #27
Let me K&R this - hopefully to the front page Betty Karlson Mar 2016 #12
The MSM Victory was appalling. Scruffy1 Mar 2016 #14
The thing is we are not a minority of the Democratic Party. OrwellwasRight Mar 2016 #15
So where are you going? KPN Mar 2016 #30
The MSM is in the bag for Hillary Depaysement Mar 2016 #16
See, here in Europe LittleGirl Mar 2016 #17
This is true... RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #20
Don't forget DWS RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #19
the influence of the MSM decreases every day GreatGazoo Mar 2016 #21
For millennials - yes. But I think people 40+ watch the news, still pick up the newspaper. jillan Mar 2016 #24
Good post. KPN Mar 2016 #31
Good question. GreatGazoo Mar 2016 #35
This past Monday xloadiex Mar 2016 #32
^^^^ THIS ^^^^^ proves my point. How would anyone know anything about Bernie if they are jillan Mar 2016 #38
The left has had elections stolen from us felix_numinous Mar 2016 #36
It still is astounding that nothing has done about our voting systems. I don't know why I was jillan Mar 2016 #39
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