re: #197 publicityStunted
re: #201 Renaissance_Man

I would like to point out that of all the campaign ads I saw, not one Republican ad mentioned their policies or achievements. 100% of the Republican ads stated ‘my opponent voted with Obama 95% of the time’ or ‘my opponent supports the Pelosi agenda’. 100%. Complete identity politics. And it works only because the US media is entirely complicit in promoting their memes. Democrat ads were about evenly split - half described the achievements of the Democrat candidate, the rest attacked the Republican for being a shill for lobbyists/big business.

progressives have msnbc and comedy central to help get the word out in a way that doesn’t put people to sleep, thank god, but apparantly i’s not enough

consider, that the political debate is not really about being for or against progressive policies - it’s about being against what the Orange Sky Propaganda Machine pretends progressive policies are. for example, Orange Sky reality maintains that:

- HCR bill mandates the federal government taking over the health care industry
- furthermore, obama wants to nationalize all industries
- liberals want to ensure electoral success by making all “minorities” dependent on government handouts
- liberals are all communists and hate business and successful people
- liberals are atheists who hate christians
- social security is a “ponzi scheme” that is broke and is being funded by Our Tax Dollars
- the obama government is “printing money” in large quantities to pay off the TARP debt (which is entirely a democrat policy designed to increase socialism), and the result of this is that soon we will have hyperinflation
- & etc, & etc, & etc ad infinitum

what’s next???