Had a thought: Maybe the failure of Democrats to follow an actual progressive platform, but instead to apparently pursue old Bush Administration positions of various programs is born of an attempt to woo more disaffected centrists from the GOP to the Democratic Party. It will come at the expense of the base, I'm afraid, but I'm not sure that it will matter to those in charge of the party, especially if the Republican Party continues to implode and drift ever farther right. Whereas progressives thought they were finally getting to have a say in things, all that seems to be happening is that the center-right faction that have been running things for decades (and fucking them up) has a new label. Tough shit, liberals, sucks to be you, huh?
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He was good on Letterman...
Havent seen it yet. Sadly, spend (illicitly) majority of blog time at work, where there is no video or sound.
I just don't understand why everything politically revolves around Republicans. When they're in charge, it's about acknowledging their authority. When they're the losers, it's about respecting their voice. Some of the biggest voices in the progressive/liberal movement were ex-GOP libertarians.
Where are the people who were always left-leaning? Are they being heard? How and when? It's almost like in Christianity, where the Born Agains end up running the church and the people who have been church goers and participants their whole lives are asked to sit on the sidelines.
Maybe the problem here is one of communications. The media has been the trusted form of mass communication for generations, so much so that many of us have perhaps come to rely on it almost exclusively. Now, that system appears to have betrayed us, speaking not for the whole of America anymore, but for the corporate interests who've purchased and conglomerated it.
So we need a new system of mass communication, and unfortunately I dont know if we'll ever get back to one large system for everyone, like we've had, at least not in our lifetimes.
How that system will work or what it'll look like, I dont know. Maybe simply a series of texts and links. Maybe a small number of people will become human news hubs. There's too much information out there for everyone to sort through, so there's always a gatekeeper of some sort; the trick is having one that is trustworthy, and the national news agencies no longer fit that bill (except, perhaps, for NPR, which still has to step carefully since they are funded by a hostile government).
Oh, uh, the relevance of that comment is that the MSM is largely controlled by a small number of super-sized companies, which tend to be rather conservative in nature.
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