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the dreadful damage RW domination of much of communications is doing to our nation.
But how on earth were Democrats supposed to keep new communications technologies from being used by RWers? No to falling for the pernicious RW communications trick of blaming Democrats for what conservatives do. That's how the RW, abetted by the anti-Democratic left, get people to believe there's nothing to vote for against them.
Remember, when voters in big trouble last time elected FDR and he and his people took office, they also put Democrats in charge of both houses of congress -- and kept them there for 12 years! With that power we accomplished great things. But that was still twelve years of constant battle in congress, in the states, in the courts, and with every private RW power center, like communications. We lost some big battles but won most. And then for the next 35 years of the New Deal era the constant battles continued with less power.
Beginning around 1978, though, voters started choosing to have conservatism dominate government. The wealthy classes exploded in a concentration of never-before-imagined wealth as production quadrupled, and they bought communications and dismantled regulation.
The electorate simply hasn't given liberal Democrats enough power for long enough to overcome Republicans in government and to take on the enormously influential communications industries. And for the 40 years conservatives have dragged us those 95 steps back it's mostly been with continued voter approval and/or cluelessness and apathy.
Liberal Democrats certainly have the will and always have. Our politicians aren't too stupid to recognize an enormous, enormous problem they have to fight single every day to achieve some measure of success, and for personal and national survival. It's like gravity, always trying to smash them, and the people, to the ground.
On the plus side we're once again, finally, seeing less of the apathy as RWers return us to the disaster levels of the Great Depression. But while radio's in trouble as a profit center, technology has shifted focus devastatingly to the far more dangerous tool of internet communications. The audience radio waves reach is aging out, but I can't imagine our new kleptocracy'd giving up radio entirely as a delivery system while they were still able to vote. Not that punching their business managers in the nose isn't worth doing, but some stations will be kept going and streamed everywhere in the nation and around the world electronically.
I have this image of kids and grandkids refusing to upgrade grandpa so he can receive it, but his friends will tell him what he needs to buy. To get control, Democrats have to destroy wealth grown so big and powerful over the past 40 years that it's incompatible with government by the people. And restore the regulatory leash on business.
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