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(9,090 posts)the fact is liberals, democrats, progressives, the left, have been getting their asses kicked for 30 years by a few hundred think tanks scripted ignorant male racist misogynist liars on 1200 radio stations using 'identity politics' to destroy democracy and the working class. it's the only reason republicans are even in this.
there will always be racists and misogynists and assholes. identity politics vs economic is bullshit because all the issues involved are managed and distorted and pushed around by those well coordinated radio stations. when the idiots say democrats have to appeal to rust belt working class they actually don't have a clue a big part of that working class thinks clinton's emails are more important than global warming because they live in areas dominated by those radio stations - the primary listeners are the trump/teabag/talk radio base that's been the same since before the kochs gave them bus passes and tea bags, and the secondary and tertiary target audience are millions of people too apathetic or too busy to look outside of the toxic stew that surrounds them 24/7.
and the analysts and politicians have no clue because there's no written record for anyone to study, none of them have time to listen to it, and it's so off the record they don't even poll for it - even though:
Throughout 2014, the three (Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, and Sam Nunberg) fed Trump strategy memos and political intelligence. I listened to thousands of hours of talk radio, and he was getting reports from me, Nunberg recalled. What those reports said was that the GOP base was frothing over a handful of issues including immigration, Obamacare, and Common Core.
and the only reason it works is the left/dems ignore that classic military style PSYOPS and give it a free speech free ride. all the left had to do is stand up in front of it and scream back. like by protesting the stations and the universities that keep the whole thing going with their athletics.
Most stations average 75 hours/week of partisan Republican talk (15 hrs/day x 5 days). If the GOP paid $1000/hour for that radio infomercial/advertising time each station is worth $75,000/week. 1200 Republican radio stations across the country would be worth $18MIL/day or $5BIL/year FREE. 257 stations would be worth $19MIL/week, or more than $1BIL/year to broadcast Republican messaging.
even worse, liberals let 88 universities keep the right's best weapon going