I just figured out why Mitch is blocking stimulus checks.

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26. Where do the headlines come from?

and how do elected officials affect those? Seems to me there's a whole lot of people putting out copious amounts of bad info, and none of them are Republican seat-holders. Yet to combat the internet, the radio, the cable shows...somehow it falls to elected Democrats to stop what media-conglomerates do. How does that happen? Millions of people should be able to figure this out, but there doesn't seem to be any way forward without control over enough of the government that laws can be enacted that affect media ownership. Otherwise, it seems like the 'third-way', is the only way out. More money in politics to buy interests that will challenge the right wing. Is there enough money out there?, and what could the Democrats provide the uber-wealthy that their right-wing counterparts have not achieved? Years ago, I used to make up fliers of information about what was going on that the print media covered, if you had time to look for it, but the television had none. So I'd put my fliers at supermarkets, doctors offices, libraries, etc., Maybe someone read them, maybe not, but I gave up. The problem then...2002(?) is no different now. Strongly suggesting my Representative do what those with massive wealth have done, to promote a perception is the same as me with my fliers going up against Murdoch. I'm no Roger Stone, and neither are my Representatives.