Reply #8: IMHO, rich liberals dropped the ball 30 yrs ago when pubs said they [View All]

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were going to take over everything piece by piece, from the ground up. We should have believed them and done the same thing,starting 30 yrs ago.

Where is our version of the Koch brothers? The Walmart clan? No rich liberal bunch has started a foundation to fund think tanks, its own newspapers and TV network, elections of Dem dogcatchers and sheriffs, etc. When the pubs said 30 yrs ago they were going to start taking over everything from the bottom up, they weren't kidding. They did, and that's why we're in this position now. Unfortunately, we don't have 30 years of our own to try to imitate their success -- as others have mentioned, we are staring peak oil/global warming/economic chaos in the face, and, to me, it's actually 'game over.' And the wrong people won.

One mistake liberals made was to assume the best of people -- to assume that most were intelligent enough to figure out their own interests, to see through propaganda, to want to improve. Large numbers of people are easily led to be fearful, paranoid, warlike and tribal. Our mistake was that we did not realize that and did not use a propaganda organ to reinforce our beliefs in the dozens of ways that the pubs have used theirs.