Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump

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18. carter is talking about symptoms - talk radio is the cause

just look at the whole comey event - his whole participation re the election is predicated on the 'importance'/ public reaction to bullshit created by talk radio - hillary emails/benghazi - and now that's what republicans are using to defend trump - loretta lynch, susan rice, etc

the public push for citizens united was largely talk radio generated on top of decades of "money is free speech" and "corporations are people" and other bullshit from 1000 radio stations.

rw radio is the difference maker and people like carter add to the problem by ignoring it. they're studying fish while ignoring the water.

it's fucking stupid and our progressive orgs have led the way by ignoring rw radio while taking our donations

there are ways to fix it:

Poll — Polling rarely distinguishes talk radio from other media. Polling is an easy way to measure its effects. This should be the bare minimum for analysts trying to understand why US democracy has become so corrupt, dysfunctional, and hostage to an alternate reality.

Monitor — This is another minimum for the Democratic Party if it wants to stop playing catchup. A software combination should be developed to automatically record and transcribe major talkers on the national and state level so they can be searched. Patterns of repetition of distortions, exaggerations, and lies will help measure talk radio’s impact. Democratic candidates need to know when and who those stations attack — before they start showing up in the newspapers as letters to the editor or in think tank-written op eds and papers. The material can be used for alerting and correcting media, in advertising campaigns, and in debates. Public access to such material will inhibit politicians and media from repeating the lies and distortions.

Credit the messengers — One major reason talk radio is so effective is that it is ignored and unchallenged. Democrats need to put a RUSH tattoo on Trump’s forehead and that of every Republican politician and media hack who repeats the same talking points. Democrats can win merely by responding to lies with a preface like “That’s what Limbaugh says, but...”

Boycott — While Stoprush and Flushrush weren’t really boycotts they had that effect. That whole effort and boycotts needs to extend to all businesses that advertise on any rw radio station. While it will hurt liberal radio the rtadio is about 95% — 5%. When the monopoly is broken stations will open up for liberal talkers. It's easy and fun to listen to the local stations live or online and get some phone numbers and better yet emails addresses from their web sites. emails may be more likely to get to the boss and linger. And thank them for trump, russian stooges, global warming, loss of health care for your family, loss of net neutrality, and so on.

Protest — the radio stations, but maybe better than that:

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