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In reply to the discussion: People vote when they have something/someone to vote FOR. [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)so it's not reasonable to expect shit from this political process.
i think it's incredibly naive to let 1200 think tank coordinated and scripted radio stations blast the country for 25 years with little or no challenge, creating made to order pro corporate constituencies and alternate realities, and then expect our reps to be liberal and get things done as if that massive propaganda operation doesn't exist.
OWS failed because its national supporters didn't include republican radio in their protests and actions.
any major local or national reform issue that gets traction (such as with protests, or any democracy/democratic activism) and the appropriate think tanks devise some propaganda PR campaign to counter it. if all they've got is print and internet and tv, no big deal, common sense and the left are watching that and can fight back. but the right figured out they can pump shit out of 1200 radio stations and into the earholes of 50 million a week for months and by the time the left and the media pull their ear buds out to notice it's too late (eg. any bullshit the GOP has used to obstruct or pass everything the last 25 years). and they can keep it going for months after the protestors have gone home. politicians don't have to listen to protestors anymore- a few blowhards on the loudest radio stations work great.
the heart of the matter is global warming, campaign finance reform, media reform, and election reform, and people are too fucking lazy or 'principled' to vote against the party that's wrong and obstructionist on all of those things because the left is getting its ass kicked by a bunch of coordinated rw talk radio blowhards.
what a tragedy.