That's amazing. One of the highest rated diaries on Kos that I can recall. The entire piece is so excellent. I hope everyone takes the time to read it.

there for many years. He is highly respected there, never attacking, always factual, his comments receive hundreds of recs themselves sometimes.

Doesn't engage in the usual nonsense that goes on there like here, just keeps on telling the truth. He's a great poster and it tells a lot about that site that some of their worst writers have been appointed to the FP while Dallas Doc has not.

is to close your eyes.

A brilliant observation.
Fits in so well in so many places.

Recommended.

"Bernie Sanders will be attacked as a socialist, and a Red Commie, and a Godless atheist, and who knows what the fuck else. But Bernie Sanders is a moral man who has spent his life working for and fighting for the people. He also has Kryptonite against the Republican smears: the awesome, shameless, historic corruption of today’s Republican party. He can parry their thrusts with the Koch brothers and climate change denialism and Social Security privatization and tax cuts for billionaires and the Iraq war debacle. He knows how to stay on message and present a vision to the American people through all the fog and distractions of the media courtiers. "

... socialists for the uber-wealthy.

it makes you wonder if he planted the questions himself.

Right now I'm flabbergasted at what is going on in our party. On the eve of the starting line gun, it's difficult to be cheerful with the direction our party is going.

We can't.

Where the party goes. We keep taking it left in large numbers, they will be forced to fall in line. Or they can just cross the aisle since it's closer than where we are.

But haven't read any nay posts. Yet

and I promise you will cherish every sweet word. There can't possibly be a nay anywhere.

what dems/left NEVER figure in is $$$4BIL + worth of free talk radio per year working for the republicans
(1200 stns x 15 hrs/day x $1000/ hr)

trump and cruz are riding 25 years of that now, while limbaugh likes them and not bush. that is the only explanaiotn needed for why bush's big money isn't working.

the gymnastics dems go through when it comes to money in politics look trivial in comparison.

and no wonder we can't re-regulate anything and keep losing no brainer elections all over the country.

It allowed consolidations in the media that have squeezed all but a few publicly financed stations out. And most of the remaining publicly financed, non-NPR stations that are left are struggling desperately.

NPR, of course, just stopped struggling and allowed itself to float in a mass of (insert four-letter word here).

I can't even stand to listen to the tone with which the NPR spokespeople drone along, sing-songy and cute. Very annoying. But that is just my opinion. NPR = NTR in my book: National Trivia Radio.

reagan killed the fairness doctrine in 87 and the radio monopoly- was already very successful by ten years later when the telcom act came along and that was pushed by talk radio and the republican congress it was instrumental in electing. the talk radio base was pushing hard for deregulation and looked like a legitimate popular base of support for deregulation because the left /dems paid it no attention, it was very loud, well misinformed, and well coordinated. talk radio was already doing great for them, like with trashing anita hill, selling reagan and iran contra excuses, obstructing clinton, stopping single payer, etc.

even if they couldn't own all those stations they'd be owned by more republicans and the same few headliners like limbaugh on hundreds of stations and their local wannabes would all be singing the same chorus on all major issues.

the tel com act helped but i'd credit loss of the fairness doctrine for much of the decline of democracy the last 25 years.

talking about npr, limbaugh just played a clip of an npr reporter calling this a talk radio election with trump and cruz, if trump won it'd be the first talk radio presidency, etc.

that is the first time in 25 years i've heard on any national media talk radio getting the credit it deserved.

...cleaning up for Reagan.

Reagan killed media sanity, but Bill came along and buried the corpse just for good measure.

And then there's NAFTA, welfare reform, letting the banksters run amok, doubling down on the "war on drugs". Yeah, he was a real pip, he was.

cause it was going to save money, improve news, create jobs, help control the 'liberal media', etc - whatever they could think of- a smorgasbord of rationalizations to choose from to make it easy for the average citizen to want it.

just like apposing single payer and then public option - same techniques, same invisibility to the left, and same successful results

here's a long description of what happened right after tel com passed passed http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1997/08/24/bus_jacor.html

much enamored of being part of the 1% to run her campaign on public assistance.

the great unwashed, either. She's far more comfortable in the salons of the billionaire class, where we commoners are kept well at bay.

and will say that what I like about Dallasdoc is the same thing I like about Bernie Sanders - authenticity. Also during the years I was there I never once received an email to please rec this diary from him - ca't say the same for Teacherken.

I've been a member there for years but mostly just read and recommend what I like. There are many great writers there, (as is the case here as well) and Dallasdoc is at the top of my favorite list. I find it very interesting who has to beg for approval. LOL

or any DailyKos link, all I go to is a list. Even when I navigate around the site and find that specific entry, the link still doesn't open up that particular one, but takes me back to the useless link. I wish I could figure out how to read Daily Kos.

I could just copy and paste it to you via email, if you'd like. Just PM me your addy. There's also a great computer forum here that could maybe help you figure it out. Just post your problem here and someone will respond.

problem with Daily Kos. It doesn't happen with any other forum I visit, nor with links to anything else.

I've sent a PM.

Powerful and insightful

Thanks for the thread, Oilwellian.

Best article yet on this election and how to decide who to vote for.

Thanks for posting.

Iowa's party'd be like an occupied and invaded country, just gray and grimy with enforcers roaming the edges

she'd be juking left and right so fast we couldn't keep up, playing off Trump and then trying to woo his backers back

Thanks for the post.

has been to the darkside and back and sees things very clearly and plainly. this is shamanic writing. shamanic perception of issues can be applied to many circumstances that need "healing" or "fixing" or "changing" or "transcending". hallucinogenics are not required - but an open ego free mind is paramount.

thank for the share, oilwellian.