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certainot

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Wed Jul 31, 2019, 01:16 AM Jul 2019

Democrats are going to keep letting the GOP decide who's too far left [View all]

Msnbc continues give time to what as well be Republican hacks.

On post-debate analysis Claire McKaskill basically just explained why medicare for all or government health care won’t fly — because she thought the feedback from teabagger constituents who have been hearing for 25 years that Canadians have to wait years for life-saving surgery and Brittish doctors can’t afford a car to get to work was legitimate, instead of coming out of the Republican think tanks via Rush Limbaugh’s ass.

This is really fucking stupid. Democrats continue to ignore the pile of shit under the living room rug because they would prefer to listen to music and assume a 20-1 coordinated talk radio monopoly dominating 40 sstates with 80 senators is a true free speech market representation of the desire Americans have for the lies and hate and ignorance that made Trump possible.

Ex senator Claire McCaskill is a good example. She lost her election because she believed the screamers on the phone and the idiots at the town halls and the buzz around the state was legitimate constituent concern about government taking over health care and millions of immigrants voting illegally and bringing disease. That was great for selling voter suppression too. They’re already starting another ebola scare like in 2014 and Trump can use it to announce a national emergency. And Democrats will have no clue.

She and many Democrats believe that crap because the left and the progressive organizations and media are really fucking stupid in ignoring Republican talk radio. Media and the Dem party don’t even poll for it. They can poll the same crap over and over but never poll for the effects of 1500 radio stations lying all day for 30 years without challenge, correction, fact checking. Many liberals believe the RW talking points that a 95% monopoly is an expression of market demand. Neither the Dem Party nor progressive organizations do anything to monitor, challenge, protest, or boycott the best tool Putin has, or the 88 universities that support hundreds of those stations.

That is really fucking stupid, especially since artificial intelligence makes it really easy, cheap, and fast to digitize what the major American blowhards are pumping out on a daily basis and finally apply actual American demand for global warming denial, racism, misogyny, more racism, and ignorance.

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McCaskill has always been a centrist Dem.in congress. I don't consider her a Progressive. YOHABLO Jul 2019 #1
a major reason many red states are red is the talk radio monopoly that liberals ignore certainot Jul 2019 #5
The numbers who listen to talk radio are way down, but the number of GOP elected (Senate especially) Demsrule86 Jul 2019 #8
the numbers are down? does it look like things are getting better? certainot Jul 2019 #11
The point is the numbers of folks who listen is down...right wing radio isn't doing well... Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #12
fielding candidates who are moderate just because tens of millions of people certainot Aug 2019 #16
I Liked Claire McC Until 2016 corbettkroehler Jul 2019 #2
Post debate coverage by MSNBC was horrible standingtall Jul 2019 #3
Go big or go home. Beartracks Jul 2019 #4
The reason we need moderation is to hold onto the house and win Demsrule86 Jul 2019 #7
many of those ideas are 'unpopular' because we let a few hundred kremlin and KKK-inspired certainot Jul 2019 #10
The why is not that important...perhaps some on the left could be persuaded to win Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #13
Claire lost because some Democrats didn't back her...those on the left... Demsrule86 Jul 2019 #6
she believed all that bullshit about immigrant invasions. all dems had to do to straighten that out certainot Jul 2019 #9
Without Claire we would not have the ACA...and her constiuents believed this shit... Demsrule86 Aug 2019 #14
i'm not saying i wouldn't have voted for her i'm saying the idiots and purists didn't certainot Aug 2019 #15
Why anyone watches that cable junk is not something I can explain. BeckyDem Aug 2019 #17
imo it's the radio that's the problem. people who watch fox for politics generally can also certainot Aug 2019 #18
True, but don't under estimate msnbc. It is awful. BeckyDem Aug 2019 #19
watching it now. it is limited by the same shit that limits all corporate media, but less so certainot Aug 2019 #20
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