GOP Controls Public Discourse
Anybody out there getting a bit weary of the Republican primary debates? Get prepared for more of the same. Checking the schedule, as of this writing the GOP will be getting ready for its 12th debate, most of them televised by major networks.
For those of you who can't get enough of this coterie of crass conservatives, fear not. We will all be treated to 14 more chances to turn off Jersey Shore and sit back and watch as right wing politics is sold to the electorate. And where are the Democrats while the Republican position goes unchallenged, while President Obama is blamed for the economy, for unemployment, and for having the temerity to offer the country medical care? They are nowhere to be found.
Hours upon hours of free airtime is being devoted to one party's vision for the country and the Democratic leadership is just sitting on its hands. Where are the town halls, the community meetings, the discussions, the Democratic followup responses that would allow presentation of a contrasting point of view? Where are the highly paid media advisers and political consultants? Where is Chief of Staff David Axelrod and party head Debbie Wasserman Schultz? He who controls the public discourse controls the attitudes of the electorate, especially those with independent leanings. Is that so hard to understand?
For those of you who can't get enough of this coterie of crass conservatives, fear not. We will all be treated to 14 more chances to turn off Jersey Shore and sit back and watch as right wing politics is sold to the electorate. And where are the Democrats while the Republican position goes unchallenged, while President Obama is blamed for the economy, for unemployment, and for having the temerity to offer the country medical care? They are nowhere to be found.
Hours upon hours of free airtime is being devoted to one party's vision for the country and the Democratic leadership is just sitting on its hands. Where are the town halls, the community meetings, the discussions, the Democratic followup responses that would allow presentation of a contrasting point of view? Where are the highly paid media advisers and political consultants? Where is Chief of Staff David Axelrod and party head Debbie Wasserman Schultz? He who controls the public discourse controls the attitudes of the electorate, especially those with independent leanings. Is that so hard to understand?
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