2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Public’s Disgust With the Democratic Party Propels Sanders [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)move to the right since the 90's
that's when ALECs success skyrocketed.
that's when R's took congress, reagan's crimes were excused, radical irrational R's started to win and 'moderate' Rs became more and more rare, and record partisanship began
that is also after reagan ended enforcement of the fairness doctrine in 87 and the GOP started putting limbaugh and others on a 1200 rw talk radio station- propaganda operation while the left looked the other way.
if a small business would pay $1000 /hr for a radio infomercial those 1200 radio stations averaging 15hrs/day are worth over $4BIL /year FREE pro republican anti-democratic propaganda every fucking year - IGNORED by the left for 30 fucking years.
there is no value in blaming other factors and ignoring this major one- ignoring it distorts all pollitical evaluations as to why the center has moved right and why this 'democracy' can't fix money in politics or wall st influence, or media deregulation.