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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's face it, Trump is possible only because of extreme right wing media.
FOX, Limbaugh, Hannity etc. they are the Tokyo Roses and Hanoi Hannas of this era. Calling for the surrender of American Constitutional and moral values. They support any and all who would embrace hate, discrimination and misogyny. Where they don't find it, they work to instill it. Resentment is cultivated like a cotton field in the old South. They undermine the American ideal at every turn in hopes of gaining and maintaining legitimacy and power, weakening the very institution they would control. They have finally found their defining leader and candidate and like an insurgency, emplaced him in the Republican Party, befouling our constitutional process and endangering our nation. Bringing shame and horror to the American presidential campaign. Their leader exposes them for the ideological despots they would be if given the opportunity. This opportunity must not befall America or for that matter the world.
sailfla
(239 posts)For ratings, I assume
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)They all share the blame.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Before it was too late. They all just winked at all the birther crap. They got what they deserve
unblock
(52,251 posts)they only started to worry about him when he departed from the script and stopped dog whistling the bigotry.
their plan is simple. a few fringe people like ann coulter are to be overt bigots but the mainstream republicans express bigotry only with carefully coded language. this makes them appeal to bigots while still pretending to be reasonable by comparison.
trump became a problem when he became both mainstream and overtly bigoted. this blows the cover off the republican fiction that they're not the party of bigotry. of course, they have been ever since nixon's southern strategy, but finally it's too obvious to ignore.
treestar
(82,383 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)And I need someone to blame.. and the people I blame? ...you liberals coddle.
Got it? And of course Ill add... Im a sick white man over 50..
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)They thought he was a train wreck no one would take seriously.
Instead he is the train wreck that keeps on wrecking.
unblock
(52,251 posts)and our irresponsible media has effectively brainwashed people into thinking that politics is all about entertainment value, and trump is entertaining. as are wars and investigations and scandals, which is all we ever seem to get.
whatever happened to statesmanship and governance?
spanone
(135,844 posts)2 billion of free airtime. should be criminal.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Trump TV 24/7!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)yet I have been going round and round with myself in trying to understand this country, especially a so-called democracy such as we survive in, that could put forward a candiddate like this racist, fascist, mysogynistic republican. Is America this morally and culturally depraved? Has the center of the political spectrum, both left and right been overwhelmed by the tactics of the extreme fringe of the RW? It seems so. It's not just the RW media, they are just channeling Goebbels, so we must also ask ourselves where the people that have voted and will vote for this 21st century Fuhrer and Nazi Party came from and why were they were ignored, in spite of the warnings of Charleston et al, until the RW media could mine their hate so effectively.
It was because the hate and racism only affected all minorities and all women. Yet in the snippets of the RW hate fest in Cleveland that I allowed myself to view showed me that people who should be concerned, minorities and women, are standing side by side with someone who will do his everloving best to bring women and minorities, especially people who are DEMANDING a place at the American dinner table, back into the bygone era that they feel will make America white supremacy great again.
Americans who are going to vote for d. trump are no better than the germans who idolized HITLER. Yet these americans are not suffering an econimic Depression,
nor do we have any Versailles Treaty to take away national pride that has to be restored again. We are the only superpower alleging itself to be a democracy on this planet but again we fail ourselves by being rascist and misygonistic.
d.trump has shown me how deep the racism is in this country. A vote for HRC will be a vote against that hate but I hope the numbers that vote for the nazi will be enough to finally wake up decent americans to a national debate on our anti-democratic issues, like racism. An AA POTUS was voted in, race relations and cultural division are worse than at any time in our country's existence. When HRC gains the WH, watch the mysogyny come to the forefront as virulently and as hateful as racism has come out of it's closet these last 7+ years.
I hope america grows up one day faces and solves our divisive issues.
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)presidential salvo in Philadelphia Mississippi with its racist message to his economic savaging of the middle class thru voodoo economics. Trump is the natural consequence of Reaganism.