Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I am tired of the extremists in this country. No middle ground, no compromise and always agitated.
they are playing both ends against the middle papa
~S~
To me it's like they divert us to trivial BS and keeps us from looking at what we need to really see.
Republicans have been doing this since Reagan and his "Welfare Queen" lies. Diverting the middle class from the amount of money he was funnelling to the wealthy, and that his much vaunted "robust economy" was purchased with huge deficits and public spending in the military sector, rather than by private industry growth.
Republicans have consistently sought election by denigrating Democrats as "communists", and currently "socialilsts". Their economic policies have exaserbated the gap between rich and poor, and resulted in two major crashes, one of which nearly took the down world economy. Trickle down is a fallacy, and tax cuts don't create jobs.
Republicans keep lying because if they told the truth, no one would vote for them. The bald truth is that the standard of living, health, and income of Americans are all declining. The scale has been utterly tipped in favour of the wealthy, and unless income levels for working Americans go up drastically, those things are not going to change.
If you think it is just one side, you are part of the problem and are not being honest.
There is no "left wing talk radio" which castigates and vilifies the right endlessly. There is no left wing equivalent of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or the other hate radio hosts whose sole job is to poison the well against the right, or a network like FOX News which promotes patently false narratives, like "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi", or Seth Rich, the "Caravan Invasions", and other lies to frighten the base.
There is only one party that denigrates the other with cries of "communists out to destroy America" and who have been preaching this message from the pulpits and across the airwaves owned by right wing billionaires, for the past 30+ years - ever since the Fairness Doctrine, which required equal time for both sides to broadcast, expired.
There is only one side which is leading the charge to gerrymander to their benefit, or which is purging the voter rolls in poor and democratic jurisdictions, moving polling booths out of poor areas into areas with no public transit, or deny voter registratons for "exact match".
There is only one side which has lost the popular vote in every Presidential election since 1992, and which consistently loses the popular vote for Congress too, but manages to find a way to power for both, but mostly, is the right wing talk radio in the "fly-over" states which has utterly poisoned the mid-west against Democrats.