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(9,090 posts)whether they are enabled or intimidated to make decisions we don't like has a lot more to do with the public opinion they can point to to excuse their actions than the money that many people are saying drives them.
the left let a few hundred ignorant blowhards on 1200 radio stations use rovian/cheney/dod propaganda to lie us into war, attack and demonize war critics, and shout over protestors who should have been at those radio stations and the universities that support them.
you can give them all the money in the world but in anything resembling a democracy if there's no constituency to point to to enable the corruption then you look corrupt to everyone. whether it's a minority of loudmouthed teabaggers backed up by a few local scripted blowhards with big megaphones yelling at media and politicians, or a true constituency, the reps don't always know the difference. especially if the left won't point it out to them because it hurts their heads to listen to it.
the biggest political mistake in history, considering the time we've lost on global warming alone, is the left's total ignorance of the right's ability to use 1200 coordinated radio stations to create the made to order constituencies and elect the ignorant sycophants that now make up the new republican party. by ignoring talk radio (like not protesting those stations and the universities that support them), the left has allowed the right to enable, intimidate and fool our reps.
as long as the left ignores that $390mil/mo advantage it cannot collectively say it is getting bernie's back. that will be very evident if he gets the nomination.
all the 'principled' liberals who complain about money corrupting politics and media, and corrupt and spineless reps while ignoring that factor are hypocrites.