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In reply to the discussion: THREE MINUTES OF TERROR For The Koch Brothers As Bernie Sanders Storms Sunday Show [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Since MSNBC has declared the era of the "left" is over and is moving toward the fake center that always triangulates right, the left is once again abandoned and invisibled. The best voice it actually has might be on Univision, which doesn't hesitate to get into controversial and popular ramifications of what goes on in Washington - but that's the Spanish channel, so it can't really go mainstream. Other channels that host "left" politics, like RT, have foreign affiliations, and can be accused of delivering foreign propaganda.
We need a strong left-leaning news channel that makes no bones about being pro-union, pro-diversity, pro woman's movement - progressive in every way. All the things a LEFT leaning Democrat is supposed to stand for. A channel that will get behind social security, that won't cringe at the word "entitlements". A channel that defends healthcare. A channel that thinks housing the homeless and repairing the welfare infrastructure wouldn't be a bad thing. A channel that might be willing to consider radical proposals like mincome for all. A channel that will stand up for food stamps and wont let people die in a ditch while we're waiting for politicians to argue things out.
Why do GOP wingnuts get their own channel and solid social uplift proposals DON'T EVEN GET A VOICE because the "not-wingnut" channels are always "moving away" from the strawman of the "lefties".
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO SLAM THE DOOR IN THEIR FACE FOR ONCE!!!