Reply #98: FYIthe last 20 years things don't get done here because the left has been ignoring RW talk radio and

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has allowed a 10% minority and their well funded think tanks to use 1000 coordinated radio stations to yell loudly over all rational efforts of americans to address our problems.

because the politically active left reads and listens to music it generally has no clue what those 1000 coordinated radio stations are blasting into the earholes of 50 mil a week, over and over and ends up reacting after the right's alternative reality has already been established, usually blaming their elected representatives or fox news for their own failure to recognize the dominance of talk radio.

this started when reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine about 20 years ago and the right began buying up the loudest radio stations and putting on the same few ignorant script-reading carnival barkers, chosen for the level of royal certitude with which they can lie and using trained call screeners to make sure few real calls ever get through to challenge that certitude, and more recently using paid callers to prompt and reinforce those carnival barkers and their lies.

that's the main reason why we're fucked up, moreso than some populous rightward shift caused by something in the water, or money in politics.