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(81,194 posts)DAMN! You seriously nailed this one. That encapsulates EVERYTHING that's gone wrong - that our party has done to itself.
Repeating what Lydia Leftcoast said:
Really, the Dems have only themselves to blame because they didn't
1) Fight back hard enough against Reagan. (In fact, some of them, namely the DLC, agreed with him on most issues.)
2) Counter the right-wing noise machine
3) Court the middle and working class on economic issues with grassroots organizers and plain talking politicians
4) Refuse to drink the "free" trade Kool-Aid
I've even heard that Les Moonves would love to buy himself a movie studio so that CBS Films would take on added luster, industry clout, and credibility. And the way to do that, as I've seen it speculated, would be to sell their radio properties. COULD WE PLEEEEEEEZE GET SOME RICH LIBERALS TO BUY THEM UP????????????? Attention Messers Geffen, Reiner, Spielberg, Katzenberg, and even Warren Buffett and George Soros.
DAMN! Does NO ONE on our side of the aisle think strategically, for the long term???