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From Jumper in South Carolina:
"Those aspiring to powerful positions by becoming popularity contest winners don't need truths. They just need massive public relations campaigns.
President Obama and others, including moderate Republicans, have told the truth. Republicans, self-righteously grasping for power have inflamed the incensed denial that they'd caused this nation's mess. Instead of listening, Republicans kicked out all their moderates and, like those 13 year old boys trashing the school bus monitor, have relentlessly trashed all the reasonable voices.
Adults straightened out those boys. Now, who is going to convince all those voters who've been turned into delusional haters by Republican-Koch-Adelson propaganda money to stop hating, listen, think about, and demand credible, workable solutions, and compromises?
Tell unpleasant truths in politics, voters do not listen, and if the truths impinge on special advantages the wealthy have given themselves that disadvantage the general population, they'll spend obscene amounts to obscure, blur, and divert voters from the truths.
We have a jobs problem because Republicans relentlessly opposed pump-priming job creation. Our recession started because Republicans relentlessly pursued deregulation and our banking industry was looted. We have a deficit problem because Republicans dropped the income tax rate to 35% from 70% and now want to gouge the short-fall out of working Americans."
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)blm
(113,037 posts)Especially those who get television time.
JHB
(37,158 posts)...or just add an asterisk listing the rest: Murdoch, Fries, Mellom-Scaife, Coors, Walton, etc.
blm
(113,037 posts)Walton - wants all US manufacturing jobs moved to China.
citizen blues
(570 posts)came out. What's the headline in the NYT? Please either provide a link or
cite your source a little more thoroughly.
blm
(113,037 posts)Still a GREAT comment
citizen blues
(570 posts)Can you provide the link?
snot
(10,515 posts)and not provide sources ourselves.
antigop
(12,778 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Failing to note Dems' complicity in our problems does not help.
antigop
(12,778 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)You got that right.
Why does Clinton get a pass for what he did?
Why do the Dems get a pass for their complicity?
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)I'd also add in the media - a 7-day a week insane propaganda machine, bleeting away.
K&R
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Reading DU is pretty discouraging. Celebrations of Walker's victory as a "win for the people of WI", endless posts about how any day now the Repukes will overplay their hand and the masses will wake up, even more about how we should play nice with the Limbeciles so as to stay on the high road.
"Jumper" gives me hope that at least a few of us are awake and might be willing to fight.
Wild_Dog
(57 posts)I'm still looking for the fight plan?
Who has it?
Where can I read it?
How are we going to take the power away from the monied interest?
Even if we vote Democratic they are still beholden to the money!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)That's where the plan is, and it's the only one that works, giving up doesn't work.
Wild_Dog
(57 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)That's more like trying to bury someone in information.
A plan looks like this:
Step 1)
Step 2)
Step 3)
The pattern should be evident. If there is a plan then what step are we on now?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Blanks
(4,835 posts)That ought to bring any opposition to democrats to their knees.
No wonder we're getting our asses kicked.
Of course the supportive attitude is even more impressive: Here, read these 1600 pages and you can join our elite forces.
Oh, you just want to read a few pages. LOL, You're a moron and not worthy to join out ranks.
Does that about sum it up?
Blanks
(4,835 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)That has been the GOP mantra since they took over the airways and poisoned a generation into thinking that other people's lives are worthless.
patrice
(47,992 posts)integrity and divine relationships, i.e. ChurchCo and their employers the Koch bros.
Ninga
(8,274 posts)the writer's state of SC. Although NYT has wide-USA distribution and readership, it is mostly the choir.
patrice
(47,992 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,328 posts)Thanks for the thread, blm.
antigop
(12,778 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)when he was hunting around here in SC.