Reply #8: The public will never "get it"

[TEXASYANKEE]

As long as we have no "informed" media giving them information. The deficit didn't matter AT ALL during the Bush years. The Repubs never brought it up. Suddenly, as soon as Obama gets elected, it's ALL about the deficit. And yet, noone in the mainstream media attaches the deficit to the Repubs. Thus, by default (in voters' minds) the deficit was caused by Dems and belongs to Obama. Without a REAL media, one not distorted by Fox and leaning so far to the right, we are all doomed.

Let's face it, Republicans and conservatism SOUNDS good. On the surface, it's all lovely. It's only when one scratches beneath the surface that the stink appears. But noone, and I mean NOONE, in the mainstream media is willing to do the scratching. Blah!