I would have agreed with you before the internet age - It was worse then, with the big three networks and the big three talking heads... But no more.
The internet, for all it's warts, is still largely free.
But it is not where most of the people get their information on politics. It is regarded as a rumor mill where the craziest cockamamie nonsense competes alongside with reality, and for some it is not possible to tell which is which.
The regular "news" has the mantle of credibility. (undeserved, but it's still there.)
Oh, but we most certainly CAN. But it takes a singular and coherent message.
What fights rampant liberalism is hard core Conservatism.
The problem is that the Republicans, who have oft been said to be the home of Conservatism, are shouting it down.
Because some of them are terrified of the media, and some of them are really on the other side. The media people understand that there is a social "in" group and a social "out" group, and they can steer the careers of politicians from the one group to the other with the power at their command.
They (the media) are also owned by the billionaire class that gets rich off of Washington DC Big spending policies.
The media doesn't matter.
I disagree. I believe they are the primary weapon by which this war is fought.
The truth is that concatenating 'Republicans' and 'Conservatives' is not true, and has not been true since at least the 94 Congress, and most probably, from the very day that Reagan;s heel crossed the White House threshold for the last time.
Our enemy is within the gates.
Well I agree with you there.
meh. So did dubya during his first half of his first term. It's gonna take a whole lot more than tossing a few breadcrumbs to make me agree with you.
"W" turned out worse than I expected. My thinking on Trump is that he has "evolved", and has awakened to ideas to which he had little exposure during most of his life.
I realized four or five years ago that he was likely going to run for President when he started making noises about Obama's birth certificate. I also recognized the path he was likely to take.
He took an "out" group (birthers) that was so marginalized that even the bulk of their own political allies made fun of them, and he spoke to their issue. He not only spoke to their issue in a non demeaning fashion, he offered support. In fact, he kept coming back to this issue several times.
I think he marched through various groups of conservatives to win their support because he knew the Democrat path to the White house was unobtainable to him. I think he went to a bit of trouble to learn more about conservative thought and ideas. I think he did this initially just to size up what he needed to know to win, but I think over time some of these ideas made sense to him, and he adopted them.
Now maybe he's fooling me, but i've been watching him since he first intruded into the birther controversy, and every move he's made since then leads me to believe he's moved in our direction.
Of course it shall remain to be seen if this is actually true or is just a good pretense.
