tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post571754758756994480..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Shed no tears for the GOPJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-88499055853198807082016-10-21T16:51:13.558-05:002016-10-21T16:51:13.558-05:00Republicans were never powerful enough to do what ...Republicans were never powerful enough to do what you claim. To catapult the disinformation and propaganda you are referring to, but curiously without directly stating what it is, you need compliant mass media. <br /><br />I guess my point is just semantics to some, as we could just say that the media is republican -- but that does not really describe how bad things have deteriorated and and why we are no longer a leading democracy in the world.<br /><br />http://theconversation.com/american-elections-ranked-worst-among-western-democracies-heres-why-56485<br /><br />Our 2-party system and its endless election cycles of voting for "the lessor of 2 evils" was not created by republicans. Right now, the media narrative is that republicans are so extreme that they may lose big in 2016.<br /><br />The real story is that across America, our media is so dysfunctional that it is difficult or impossible to get accurate information about who is doing what to whom and how much money they are therein' to do it. Wisconsin's media is even worse than the national media as a whole -- so we have been hijacked years ahead of the tRump debacle. <br /><br />But make no mistake about it -- the national media is capable of and aligned with the same interests that created The Badger State's divide-and-conquer. Who is responsible for it?<br /><br />Only mass media can create fascism in a nation that was once considered a republic and representative democracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com