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In reply to the discussion: THANK YOU BERNIE SANDERS for speaking the blatant truth when so many won't [View all]betsuni
(25,534 posts)For more than four decades they've built a network of grassroots organizations and think tanks that formulate and promote conservative ideas, a long term investment that's paying off. Built their own media of talk radio and Fox News and have promoted the careers of conservatives within the mainstream media. Built ideological alliances between industry, government and regulatory agencies. They've suppressed voter turnout in minority communities and with gerrymandering. From 1991 tp 1994, Republicans received 62 percent of the tobacco industry's political contributions, from 1995 to 2000, they received 82 percent. Agribusiness gave 56 percent to Republicans and by 2002 it was 72 percent. Other industries follow this trend. The idea that Democrats are ones in corporate pockets is silly.
Grover Norquist in 2003: "We are trying to change the tones in state capitals and turn them toward nastiness and partisanship."
It has nothing to do with Democrats. Trying to make it about "Heh, the Democrats have no message and stand for nothing" and "Heh, the Democrats have abandoned FDR policies and are liberal elites who have ignored the working and middle classes" is absurd.