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(9,090 posts)until the left pulls it's ipods out of its ears and stops getting its internet ass kicked by right wing radio.
dems have to play the money game and losing in 2010 meant NO chance to get money out of it. the corporate interests play both sides and like the deregulators and tax haters in the GOP especially, but they and their think tanks push dems right (with the racist talk radio teabagger GOP base, etc) and the left enables a big part of it by ignoring rw radio.
obama (esp the black pres) still has to pretend to serve all of america and try to find middle ground so it makes absolutely no sense that liberals allow 1200 radio stations (licensed to operate in the public interest and often wearing our college sports mascots) to pound the country with lies and threats to our reps and enable and intimidate the MSM to move right ,with barely a whimper in response.
everything liberals and progressives and our orgs try to do to push our reps and our country left is considerably less effective because we allow 400 + think tank coordinated and scripted blowhards to dominate and distort all national discussion on every major issue those think tanks target.
IMO it's ridiculous and useless to expect much from democrats until liberals stop ignoring rw radio- the right's most effective weapon.
and evaluating and judging the liberality of dem performance without factoring in rw radio wastes time and allows the right to keep pushing our reps around.