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In reply to the discussion: The Case for Obama...a truly historic presidency [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)is that the 'left' evaluates their reps as if there weren't 1000 coordinated radio stations reaching 50 mil a week channeling corporate think tanks with million dollar PR pros working in shifts to make sure US media and politics is 100% pro corporate and antidemocratic, obstructing everything and anyone progressive, liberal, and rational.
there is absolutely NO organized opposition to it and until then criticism of dem reps and presidents as traitors and ineffective is plain fucking stupid unless they actually vote republican. anything in between is politics and compromise and because the 'left' ignores talk radio we get to play catchup and whine about how our guys can't play without a front line.
the really silly thing is their leader is rush limbaugh, and his team was invisible as, for example, it spent months convincing enough idiots (because there was no response from the left) that not raising the debt ceiling had advantages for republicans and america.