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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Republican outrage? [View all]The political death of the Fairness Doctrine has allowed right wing hate radio to dominate the airwaves almost everywhere in the country without any counterbalancing point of view. It is pure right wing propaganda as you say and it is one reason so many working class people slit their own throat to vote for Trump. But the loss can't be hung only on Republicans. Reagan put in the knife but Clinton allowed it to bleed out and Obama buried it and dispersed the ashes in 2011.
LIke their impotence on challenging voter suppression laws, their silence about obscenely partisan gerrymandering all over the country, the abandonment of the Fairness doctrine is a further indictment of the Democratic party as it exists now. Those who say the Republican / Democratic "choice" is a classic good cop / bad cop gambit can point to these 3 things as proof the Democratic party is collaborating with their "enemy" to keep themselves in minority status.