Reply #137: He may be right, but it doesn't have to be like that.

[Kucinich04]

If the Left had the kind of radio saturation and support of the mainstream media that the radical right has (hell, if we could just get two or three good radio shows syndicated nationally, like Bernie Ward and Mike Malloy) Liberalism would enjoy a huge resurgence almost immediately. The fact is, there are so many people out there who have had zero opportunity to hear our message, whose views of the Left and what we stand for are shaped entirely by the voices of right-wing assholes who have defined what we stand for instead of hearing the truth. Without any widespread attempt at rebuttal from our side, Joe Sixpack is inclined to simply believe the lies about the Left they've had hammered into their heads for the past 10 years by the Limbaugh and similar shows. The Left is never going to regain their former prominence until they start really getting their message out and refuting the lies, point by point, that are being used to smear our image, while simultaneously building up the GWB’s of the world based on more spin and deception. The truth is that we hold the more popular views on most of the issues, but we've failed to get our message and reasoning out to enough people.. For example if all they ever hear is limpballs telling them that we favor legislation to require higher mpg cars because we want 'big government to take your ‘freedom’ to own an SUV away because we’re all a bunch of out-of-touch eco-nazi’s who buy into the globally debunked notion of global warming’, and never get to hear the real reasoning behind our views, they are going to think that we don’t fight back because what he’s saying is actually true. The net result being that we look like a bunch of ‘Un-American ’ jerks who hate freedom, just like them thar terra-ists. We have got to do a better job of explaining ourselves, or loserman will prove to be 100% correct. We cannot win with a left-leaning candidate. But I say that’s only because so few people really understand what being Left really means and that’s due to a lack of people on the air explaining it to them.