People saying "Democracy is dead" are pissing me off

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20. it pisses me off too, but dems keep getting a crucial part wrong

this:

Our democracy was attacked by the Republican Senate and by the Republican president and by the Republican Fox News.

is the critical mistake liberals and democrats have been getting wrong and the reason why we should be optimistic.

if trump/putin/gop would pay $1000 for a one hour radio infomercial then 1200 radio staations x 15 hrs/day is worth almost $5BIL FREE to create this shit. fox could not do the unchallenged coordinate repetition needed to propel all that bullshit onto the senate floor.

rw radio is a 95% monopoly and in most parts of the US there no free easy alternatives. it doesn't matter how many cos own about 1500 republican talk radio stations, they all follow the lead of the 600 limbaugh stations, with dittoheads who can't ever get through to talk to their national blowhards calling the local blowhards to make sure everyone's on the same page. that's how the same bullshit is repeated and reinforced. and unlike talk radio, fox has to pretend to be 'balanced' and actually puts alternatives on once in a while. and talk radio can be/is locally coordinated. like republican politicians, fox liars know when they look into the camera their bullshit has already been or soon will be pounded into the earholes of 50 mil a week.

it used to be the karl roves and heritage foundations and drudges doing the feeding and then somewhere around 2007 or maybe earlier the russians started horning in with world net daily and breitbart and social media for instance and they could get someone like jerome corsi or john solomon to write something to feed limbaugh. the russians may have been responsible for the anti-GOP-establishment tea party.

so blaming fox is a big part of the problem - letting the real culprit off the hook

when dems finally figure out the talk radio is the real problem they'll see a huge opportunity to fix this giant orange asshole over the country. commercially available artificial intelligence makes it easy to finally make it visible/readable/ searchable and finally something that can be quantified and factored instead of conveniently ignored buy progressive/dems/ media leaders who generally read and live in cities.

and look at the opportunity someone like michael moore is missing for ignoring talk radio. he predicts doom and tells us we must ramp up GOTV to beat voter suppression and russian trolling etc or else... but in his state of michigan all he has to do is waalk onto the michigan state campus and ask why it broadcasts sports on 11 limbaugh stations. uni of mich 7 limbaugh stations. thats 18 limbaugh stations coordinated to sell privatization and lead in water, trump, global warming denial, defunding public ed, single payer doesn't work, protesting athletes are unamerican, etc while endorsed by those schools.

dems have to stop blaming fox - the russians and cons are using it as a decoy while the real problem wears an invisibility cloak and gets a free speech free ride.

to completely destroy the GOP and make sure these assholes never win another election destroy the rw radio monopoly