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In reply to the discussion: "But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!" [View all]certainot
(9,090 posts)if the left is going to keep ignoring talk radio don't expect anything different. single payer was politically 'impossible' mainly because of 25 years of ignoring rw radio.
RW radio (managed by the 1%'s think tanks) enables and intimidates politicians and media enough to allow to give 20% the 'popular' standing of 50% or more.
the teabaggers that screamed and yelled to stop the public option were nothing more than dittoheads, motivated by myths and lies and yelling talking points made real to them with 25 years of unchallenged talk radio repetition (and many lies about canadian and european single payer), while the left stuck their fingers in their ears. they were loud, amplified by 1200 coordinated and ignored radio stations.
the left was and will continue to be beaten by a few hundred very loud lying assholes. those stations and most of those blowhards were and still are ignored- and that's why we don't have single payer.
and it is the same tool that stopped the clinton health care back then.