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KY_EnviroGuy

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33. K&R for truth. The real horrible damage they have done to America is.....

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 06:18 PM

Oct 2020

the sowing of division and hatred between millions of everyday people. America was not that way before and I would submit we now have a dysfunctional nation on a path to fascism.

This is entirely the doing of a mostly hidden sector of right-wing high wealth individuals. They have a psychopathic hatred for anything that retards business expansion and revenue growth, including most everything our government has traditionally done for everyday people.

Everything else Republicans preach about is just populist fluff to gather votes from naive, vulnerable people.

The words conservative and conservatism have been completely adulterated until they're now meaningless.

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NYT: "Talk Radio Is Turning Millions of Americans Into Conservatives" [View all] DBoon Oct 2020 OP

Only if they are MFM008 Oct 2020 #1

Never underestimate how stupid millions of people are SoonerPride Oct 2020 #3

Actual research studies have shown that even intelligent, educated people... Crunchy Frog Oct 2020 #29

Disagree... brooklynite Oct 2020 #2

Just like the children of Hamelin following the piper Clearly fogged in Oct 2020 #12

Yes, everyone has biases, but RWHR reinforces and metastisizes them. maxsolomon Oct 2020 #13

Have you ever watched "The Brainwashing of my Dad"? Crunchy Frog Oct 2020 #30

+1 crickets Oct 2020 #35

Your unsupported premise in no way denies the sourced premise of the OP LanternWaste Oct 2020 #32

It does far more than that, particularly in environments where they monopolize the market JHB Oct 2020 #34

Exactly, it's the constant immersion and basically being 'steeped' in the narrative JonAndKatePlusABird Oct 2020 #41

What do you base this statement on? andym Oct 2020 #53

I hope certainot doesn't get wind of this. ZZenith Oct 2020 #4

Au contraire, he deserves to see it Ponietz Oct 2020 #23

Agreed. ZZenith Oct 2020 #24

...turning millions of Americans into Assholes. spanone Oct 2020 #5

GMTA...my first thought also... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #17

👍🏼 spanone Oct 2020 #21

Only if they listen Marthe48 Oct 2020 #6

The thing is Windy City Charlie Oct 2020 #7

In solidly Liberal Seattle, we have KIRO FM maxsolomon Oct 2020 #15

I can handle Dori on football, not anything else... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #19

The "anything else" makes me unable to handle him on football. maxsolomon Oct 2020 #27

This is why trump's numbers and other right-wing extremists are where they are rockfordfile Oct 2020 #8

I think this was true 20 years ago TheRealNorth Oct 2020 #9

The Fairness Doctrine was not censorship, and Matzko is a libertarian nut struggle4progress Oct 2020 #10

Good to know DBoon Oct 2020 #14

Wrong, RW radio kneecapped conservatives by elevating radical reactionaries. blm Oct 2020 #11

K&R for truth. The real horrible damage they have done to America is..... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2020 #33

They're just figuring out the power of RW talk radio in 2020? bullwinkle428 Oct 2020 #16

per the article, JFK knew is was a problem in the early 1960s DBoon Oct 2020 #20

My mother used to listen to the "other side" - those same "early" conservative talk hosts BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #18

I remember Lynn Samuels electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #37

She used to broadcast from 770 WABC in NY BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #40

I listened to her on WABC but wow I didn't know... electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #48

Yup BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #50

Wow. electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #52

I think it was her (exaggerated) Brooklyn accent BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #57

Anybody remember Joe Pine? Ligyron Oct 2020 #42

The name sounds familiar although I don't know how many of these people BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #44

OMG, Bob Grant! Ligyron Oct 2020 #45

Yup - Mark Levin was another who "copied the voice" of Bob Grant BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #46

Precisely. Ligyron Oct 2020 #47

Oh, jeeeeeeez! Bob Grant : / electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #49

... BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #51

Any Public Radio station(s) you can listen to? electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #55

We have a local public TV & radio station here (WHYY) BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #61

Sure I know of WHYY... and Terry G... electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #62

I have the "lifetime" subscription to Tune In BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #63

I Believe There's Requisite Condition They Omitted ProfessorGAC Oct 2020 #22

Hear, hear! ZZenith Oct 2020 #25

Interesting point. nt crickets Oct 2020 #36

Percentage of conservatives has been rising at snail's pace Awsi Dooger Oct 2020 #26

millions of IDIOTS Skittles Oct 2020 #28

Broadcast radio and television doesn't even exist in the world of my children and their cousins. hunter Oct 2020 #31

You can be unintentionally effected... electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #38

Fairness doctrine for public airwaves and extended to cable + internet andym Oct 2020 #39

Palm Beach county went from having all liberal and local radio hosts on WJNO, to Rush. Ligyron Oct 2020 #43

It's about Appealing to White Racism JI7 Oct 2020 #54

This and also... electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #56

Yes, appealing to the white hetero xtians who believe JI7 Oct 2020 #59

Yup They were also mad that... electric_blue68 Oct 2020 #60

I have a super strict no talk radio policy in my car. Initech Oct 2020 #58

The Times makes me shake my head now and then; Dyedinthewoolliberal Oct 2020 #64