Reply #65: Really, who's doing the lecturing?

[CTyankee]

And not just the lecturing, but the actual attempt to take over people's personal lives? The right wing, not the left. The wake up call for the middle came with Terri Schiavo. But absent something THAT extreme, lots more can just slide through under the radar. Look at the chipping away at Roe v. Wade over the last 30 years.

Also, the media was a big problem for us liberals in the last election. Once the media jumps in bed with the righties, it's hard to dispel the images that the right wing deliberately plants of liberals. Then it's off and running in the media cycle, constant drumbeat. Altho we had lots of positive accomplishments to point to in the Clinton Administration, the media just hopped to the commands of the right wing. Our good stuff got drowned out.

It's gotten so bad that the right wing just lies brazenly, without fear of getting caught because they know the lazy media for the most part won't call them on it (or bother to check). You'd think the media would shame people who tell outright lies, but they do zip.

I could go on and on but I don't think this is all our fault. Something is terribly wrong when our own side says John Kerry was a bad candidate. Anybody who watched the presidential debates could see and hear for themselves who was the better candidate. Hell, for that matter, who was capable of intelligible speech!