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In reply to the discussion: While I'm happy about who won, I am deeply troubled because [View all]drray23
(7,627 posts)53. I think it started in the 90's.
Post Reagan years and with the emergence of the rw media such as Fox news and a plethora of radio shows.
We democrats did not respond in kind and over the last 25 years, people were gradually brainwashed and got more and more radical.
Gerrimandering is what we usually point out at when describing the challenges we have to retake house seats, I think the more important factor which lead to everything else is the control of the message. Republicans have horrendous agendas, yet they get elected because they are master at messaging and they have an army of propagandist radio hosts and tv networks to reinforce it.
The only way this country will get back at having sane pollitical conversations is if this issue is addressed.
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College educated (including law degree) women like my sister who even attended the pussy
deurbano
Dec 2017
#27
must account for the ugly fact that Alabama has voter id laws, plus there could have been
diva77
Dec 2017
#48
That definitely falls in the category of f***ed up -- and I hope it is followed up.
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2017
#55
The way he sits on the horse betrays his utter ignorance of how to ride.
northoftheborder
Dec 2017
#54
Yes, pity only goes out to caballo that carried his sorry racist perverted arse!
RestoreAmerica2020
Dec 2017
#26
You have to find out what it is in their gut that overpowers everything else to
JimBeard
Dec 2017
#41
Then we need to fight in court and educate people on how to protect their voting rights.
Blue_true
Dec 2017
#43