This is why the Republicans, despite always being wrong, still get the lion's share of airtime

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32. Great post - I would add one thing about "liberals ignoring it"

The problem is that what the Republicans sell is the perfect product for AM radio - hatred and division.

There is a pretty strong strain within most people, but specifically in this case American's where were we REALLY like a boogyman. Be it railing on the boss, a co-worker, someone we know.

Nothing bring people together like a common enemy.

So, the product is demagoguery. Even if it is cartoonish, it is readily, in fact greedily lapped up.

It isn't just AM radio, the same profiteers who make big money spewing their hatred over the airwaves make a mint selling books. Titles along the lines of "why liberal scumbags hate America so much" then pen 200 pages of some rift on that theme.

"liberal" radio existed BEFORE the explosion of conservative talk radio.

NPR and other public access type radio with information and news.

It always had a small market, relatively, and never expanded beyond that because people as a whole don't want facts, they want the boogyman.

Now, politics is politics and there is an element of demagoguery involved with it, but what the republican do now is at a level never before seen - the outright virulent nature of it and the totally unchecked lying that goes on with it. Unless the Democratic Party gets a spine AND sells out to the level of the Republicans, they simply can't generate the level of vitriol that makes AM radio work.