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In reply to the discussion: Trump Actually Is Trying To Destroy America Anyone Else Notice? [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)and reduce wealthy influence in politics
those are symptoms of a democracy that can't fix them and democracy's been going back and forth on that with slow progress in the US.
but this current failure only goes back 30 years. there is only one major medium with no democratic challenge from the other side of the political spectrum and that's the billionaires' only advantage. all other media have alternatives, correction, and challenge a click away. talk radio operates outside of the free speech spectrum and the russians figured that out years ago.
untill the dem party and the progressive orgs stop ignoring the 20-1 talk radio monopoly we can't have a national fact based discussion about anything without the billionaire think tanks and now putin feeding 1500 radio stations with counter and distractional messaging.
media, election funding, healthcare reform, public education have been constant targets for disinformation in 40 states with 80 senators since reagan killed the fairness doctrine in 1997 - 9 years before fox.
they hyperinflated the immigration problem just to pass their voter suppression and dems didn't notice because they ignore the radio
this is not some eventual or cyclic or unavoidable disaster we can just blame on money in politics.
we even let 88 major universities endorse 260 limbaugh stations, and just this morning the local blowhard on the NM limbaugh superstation kkob, which enjoys the community cred and ad draw of the university of NM lobos sports teams broadcasting, was railing against tax increases to improve education funding. they'v e been obstructing improvements and reforms like that in every state and attacking dem candidates while completely immune from challenge by the left because it hurts our ears to listen to it.
and now kids are put in cages.
no it's not money, it's one particular propaganda operation with an invisibility cloak that only works on liberals and democrats
but we might get lucky if mueller finds out limbaugh and hannity have been getting russian money the last 10 years, or the ad agencies find out rw talk radio can now be digitized