Chris Hedges: America is a Tinderbox

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19. the difference the last 25 years: the left completely ignored the right's best weapon- talk radio-

and analysts and commentators and critics like hedges and so many liberals and progressives who criticize dems and the lack of progress analyze as if it doesn't exist or is some kind of handmaiden to fox TV, instead of the other way around. they can't read what's being blasted out from the think tanks from 1200 coordinated radio stations by professional liars like limbaugh and it gives them a headache or there's no time to listen to it so they ignore it. they analyze in a talk radio vacuum. and the activists would rather listen to music. so the collective left cannot say it's getting their reps' backs and we all end up playing catchup, expecting our reps to stick their necks out while the right gets a free speech free ride to take pot sots at them all day long.

talk radio kicks internet ass.

how much more time is the left going to waste playing catch up, pretending like we're going through some cyclical political RW emergence, when all it is is the 1%'s think tanks blasting 50 mil a week with well-designed PR operations, creating an alternate reality and made-to-order constituencies to enable their corrupt and loony politicians and media.

how can we have national scale fact-based discussions on any issue without it being easily distorted by those radio stations, averaging 20 per state and often piggybacking our university sports teams for community credibility and ad dollars? why isn't racism and fascism acceptable if 100 blowhards get to blast the country with racism and fascism all day and no one gets in their face? (the only exception being the stoprush flushrush boycott.)

the left better wake the fuck up fast. global warming is here..