When will urban liberals do something about the hate am radio incitement of viol

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Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)
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When will urban liberals do something about the hate am radio incitement of violence against liberals.

In particular for those living in rural or mainly rural states?

The culture in rural states has been altered completely to reject any idea that might lead to community building originating from “the govment” . Only churches and money from billionaires is seen as worth accepting. It has been non stop nearly 40 years of propaganda.

Trump rose to power by seizing the opportunity that these decades of cultivation by the right wing, who funded these miserable am stations, created. That the theology of Limbaugh has metastasized upon his death to minions talking violence and hatred 24/7 of any and all people who try to install responsible governance has brought us to this impasse we find ourselves in today.

With these people itching to lash out and use their weapons. Against public health officials and school boards. At least in talk. In action, they refuse vaccination and masking. The deadly results are rather similar.

The root of this has been the urban liberal’s ignoring of the violence incited against rural liberals that has been going on non stop for my lifetime.

Did it surprise any of us who work in rural areas that those people who trashed the research station and the actual data of the folks at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge were set free? Never served anytime. That those Bundy’s continue to wreak havoc in Idaho and other western states? That hatred of science and scientists is just a given?

Urban people seem to believe that by funding non profits ( who stand no chance of changing a thing in rural areas) such as planned parenthood, that they will make a dent. Get a grip, the rural states will keep electing 2 senators against women's health forever until their population wakes up from the malignant spell that this hate media of decades long alienation has cast.

The answers, imo include:

1. Put an absolute and immediate stop to hate media and far right religious rhetoric that incites violence ( pretty much them all) on all public airwaves and on military channels played at bases.

2. Stop attacking centrist democrats who must be supported at all costs.

3. Focus on a constant call out of the far right politicians. And their supporters.

Personally, just as they have been attacking us ( rural democrats) for decades. These guys have no respect for politeness. We must be clear and strong and unapologetic. The district attorneys need to be prosecuting those politicians and individuals who will not wear masks, and turn this around. Use the laws they put in place for those spreading HIV. Get them arrested and in jail. Make them start defending themselves.

4. The democracy seems to be particularly at risk to me. And wow was it ever done cheaply using am radio and Russian bots. All while the urban liberals fight among themselves. And ignored our cries for help all these decades. Using ridiculous “free speech” rhetoric. Inciting of violence and damning an entire political party and all public health officials to a fiery death is not free speech. It is speech with consequence. The rapid spread of the pandemic and unnecessary deaths the actual proof. The attack on the most of us by the few of them absolutely must be prosecuted.

 

Star Member essaynnc (478 posts)

1. I agree 100%

While I don't exactly know your situation in rural America, the situation in NC, which is actually the South, is just like what you're describing. I live in Winston-Salem, and half of the population could be considered part of the problem... no respect for science or the government, authority is measured by force, and many believe that the time is coming for them damn libruls.

And Right Wing Radio is a HUGE part of the problem. I occasionally listen to it, just to keep up to date. I can usually last all of 10 minutes max., before I get so pissed off I have to turn it off. If you've never listened to Hannity or one of his wanna-bees (there are many), you need to. Lies, half-truths, hatred, intolerance, "democratically controlled cities are war zones", Biden this or Harris that, socialism, communist running our country, "we've got to take our country back!"; the crap flows 24 hours a day! It is inconceivable to me how they get away with saying most of the crap that they spout!!! Why aren't they required to at least somewhat adhere to truth? And unfortunately, we have no way to refute any of that- they're in their bubble, and nothing out of their echo chamber gets in.

So I've heard the left being castigated for not reaching out to the nice rural folks, why aren't we? In my opinion, while they continue to hear Fox News Right Wing Bullcrap, we will NEVER, EVER, EVER BE HEARD.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

10. Yes! It is not our job to reach to them

When they attack us endlessly.

The solution is to put an end to their non stop propaganda and incitement of violence against us.

Star Member jimfields33 (8,374 posts)

5. For some reason liberal radio never appealed enough

I know it’s been tried. Maybe another try is needed.

Star Member Mr.Bill (14,799 posts)

7. I honestly think our literacy rate is higher.

We tend to read more than listen to someone on the radio.

 

haele (10,583 posts)

9. Liberal radio appealed to logic.

Shock jock radio appeals to emotion. It's hard to counter that with logic. Busy or simple "Folks" don't want to think, they want to "feel", and if whatever outrages them also makes them feel like a hero, even if it flies against everything they learned in Kindergarten and Sunday School.

Haele

 

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

21. Yes, except I don't really think rural people are listening to these stations

Because of any reason other than that is all they hear in rural areas and the thinking/ rhetoric has become utterly normalized. It is more about claiming which tribe they are in. And the rural tribe is now stalwart republican. The language and lies considered utterly true.

There is no way to get through to any of them now.

I see no solution other than forcing the airwaves to cease and desist the inciting of violence.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

75. Why is threatening to kill Nancy Pelosi ok?

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Why were the attacks on Hillary never ending incitement of violence towards her not prosecuted?

I have never understood why these villains have always been given a free pass.

Now it is Fauci they want killed.

 

Star Member Hoyt (51,667 posts)

3. Despise hate radio, but it's hard to talk about "democracy" while wanting to ban it.

Believe me, I get it. Everyone of those MFers — Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, etc. — deserve a special place in Hell.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

32. They do, and I said ban the hate speech or persecute or sue

them enough to get it to stop.

Look at how the voting machine companies have gone after them.

What other tools can be used?

Whatever can be used, they must be employed.

If they don’t work, try something else.

If they are tried and fail, try something else. These are the tactics the far right are using and winning with.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

62. So what, if it is not on public airwaves it may not have the clout.

And let me ask you, why don’t you think it matters that they have built their skills up persecuting rural liberals for generations now?

They control the Senate, and unless we figure out some way to make inroads in the rural states against the propaganda, they will continue to control it.

Star Member Hoyt (51,667 posts)

70. Look, it's not going to be banned. Probably good, even as much as we hate hate radio.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

85. Well, for these decades, no one has really tried

And you are probably correct, but do you have any ideas of how to deal with these violent insurrectionists who see no consequences for their actions and who pretty clearly control the conversation ( thanks to that rhetoric that they all believe is true) and who control the senate so fiercely that we may lose Manchin to the GOP and we then have Mitch McConnell in charge again. All because we attack our own instead of the republicans?

Why can’t we color outside the lines and attack them for a change? Why are we always the recipient of their violence?

It feels very much that way to me living in a rural area of a blue state. I am very grateful to be in a blue state, but acutely aware of the powers these guys yield and use without any trepidation. They do things and we have to try to stop them. And I feel as though the nation is now losing. Not just me and other liberals in rural areas.

 

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

12. So your "something" is to make right wing radio illegal and prosecute the hosts?

The 1st Amendment would like a word with you.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

17. Yep, always just throw that out, but the first amendment has limits and inciting violence against individuals is not protected. This idea that threatening people on public airwaves is protected is a huge part of the problem.

Perhaps you have not been the beneficiary of the hate media’s attack. But I have and it is not acceptable.

We are loosing public health people left right and center. We are losing many public servants of all sorts.

The right pushes the envelope on everything. It is time for us to push back.

In a very big way.

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

23. Even were such legislation to be passed (and it won't) it would be tossed out by the courts in a heartbeat.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

25. Nope, it is already illegal to cry fire in a crowded theater

It is already illegal to threaten people with violence.

What has been going on is that these people have been given too much latitude. The speech is not taken seriously. They always claim it is a joke. But it is not a joke.

And it has impacted all of us in rural areas for decades.

And now our democracy is completely under threat. And if we do not push back, it is over.

Push back.

 

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

29. What is not the same?

A media host telling people to kill Fauci?

Another advocating killing Nancy Pelosi?

Another advocating killing me?

Please tell me why you think a radio host has the right to tell their listeners to kill or hurt particular people, or people of a political group.

They need to be sued and prosecuted.

Look at how the companies who made the voting machines sued those making those claims.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

34. We don't need legislation, we need prosecutors and lawsuits

Case in point the voting machine companies and their lawsuits.

Why aren’t the prosecutors going after those telling people to kill Fauci?

Seriously, even if deemed frivolous, that does not stop the republicans, it only energizes them.

Don’t you think it is disillusioning for us in rural areas to be threatened every day of our lives for nearly 4 decades?

Wonder why you never see any Democratic signs or stickers on cars in rural areas? We know we will be targeted. By neighbors, by law enforcement.

Nobody has stood up for us, not the entire democracy is under siege and still people cannot see it?

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

40. You're calling for rightwing radio to be made illegal, and all its hosts to be arrested.

That's not going to happen....period.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

43. I am calling for the hate speech to be prosecuted and if a host tells listeners to go kill an abortion provider, or a liberal farmer or Nancy Pelosi, and Fauci or Biden, then they need to face consequences.

This idea that their speech is only suggestive is preposterous.

If you want to waste your time arguing about it, do so.

But we lose our democracy. And anyone coming up with reasons not to hold these insurrectionist responsible is playing on their side.

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

50. Hate speech is legal in the US.

and if a host tells listeners to go kill an abortion provider, or a liberal farmer or Nancy Pelosi, and Fauci or Biden, then they need to face consequences.

Just to pick one of your examples, which hosts have told their listeners to kill the president?

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

54. Wow, guess you never listen to these monsters.

I can take maybe 5-10 minutes max. Then I just have to turn them off.

Do you have an idea of how to change the hate speech issue from the radical right wing?

Am I to believe that you have never suffered any consequences from these guys?

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

88. Well, I am glad that you are able to ignore them all

and it is why I think the problem has festered.

I do not see how we get out of this insurrection that we are experiencing. I feel very beaten down by the power this propaganda has amassed.

But maybe I am just too tired and sad from this never ending pandemic.

One of my old friends just died of Covid, not vaccinated because of the hate media influencers. I cannot wrap my head around all this death, and worry very much that the Senate will go Republican.

Then what?

Can you reason with your rural neighbors who listen to these radio personalities? Is your area mostly Republican or libertarian?

 
 

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

99. It is not fascist to demand that public airwaves not be used to advocate

violence or insurrection. It is common sense and decency.

Star Member WarGamer (3,308 posts)

19. The problem is... there's a market for RW radio.

If people didn't listen, broadcasters wouldn't broadcast it.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

35. No, it was paid for by the Republican National Committeee and it was all there was to listen to.

If you have even had a job where you had to drive hundreds of miles a day, believe me you end up listening to a lot of this stuff.

There is nothing else to listen to in much of the country.

The republicans figured this out in the ‘80’s and ran with it.

Star Member WarGamer (3,308 posts)

36. Haven't seen evidence of that

 

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

38. Well you can investigate it if you doubt me

I learned about their support from a retired Pulmonologist from the US Army who was running for Congress in outer very red district.

He shared with us the funding streams. It took very little. They stuck with it all these decades.

It paid off except I think that now that they created the monster, they are surprised.

We have a DU member who posts quite a bit about the history of this propaganda machine.

I bet he knows a whole lot more that I heard from this candidate.

 

AncientAndy (61 posts)

67. Got a better source...

than a retired pulmonologist who we all know doesn’t exist?

 

Star Member Celerity (24,601 posts)

37. Divisive, trying to blame city mice for country mice's poor choices to keep living in deep red rural shitholes.

Plus you apparently do not understand some fundamental elements of free speech law.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

39. No, I am a liberal who has worked and lived in rural areas my adult life and there are many of us

But we have been under attack for decades, and urban liberals have utterly ignored the violence of these people. Who have become only emboldened by being ignored. Rhetoric amplified and normalized by jumping to the likes of Fox News, etc.

The lawsuits by the voting machine companies are one way to approach this.

Why do you think the first amendment gives a radio host the right to ask people to go kill Fauci, or anyone else?

Star Member Celerity (24,601 posts)

47. Please go study the mechanics of Constitutional free speech law.

As for urban Dems 'ignoring' rural Dems, go see the 50 state strategy and also how many urban based candidates for statewide offices go to every country in their state.

As for political policy and legislation, as a party we are not going to limit ourselves to only things that could pass muster in Pig Hollow, West Virginia. (a real place btw)

Rural areas should NEVER get the ultimate say on national government. They are so in the minority population-wise, yet our tragically flawed US Constitution's deep, long wave systemic weaknesses and flaws have been gamed by the RW over the past 55+ years to give them a FAR too powerful voice.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

52. Dems have ignored the threats to us from these hate groups using the public airwaves

and I absolutely do not think Dems should pander to the right wing.

But the voice of the right is the only voice allowed to be heard in rural areas because of this nearly 40 years of violence against liberals directed to us. But these toxic personalities.

And so any politician who questions the talking points of the RW media is pilloried and stands no chance. The Senate is now filled with these ideology, but it did not happen overnight. It happened over these decades of propaganda.

I am saying that ignoring the power of this propaganda is what got us to this juncture in the road.

Where we may loose Manchin and the Senate goes back to being run or ruined by Mitch McConnell.

Because we will pick on him, but not one of the republicans gets called upon to explain their vote.

All because this hate rhetoric have been so normalized in these rural states.

It did not used to be this way. It took a long time to get to this point. But we are at the brink.

We who have lived in these areas have seen it coming.

I knew Trump was going to win in the summer of 2016, it was utterly obvious to every liberal living or working in rural areas. But, our perceptions are dismissed.

If you think my ideas of how to change the narrative do not work, how would you tackle this brainwashing? Have you ever tried to even talk to any of these people?

And before you dismiss them all as kooks, there are plenty who seem smart, and are capable people doing important work. But utterly brainwashed by these media personalities. They used to run the Republican parties in rural areas. They used to be the sane bookkeepers and accountants and city managers. And bankers and mainstream layers. And the doctors and hospital admin folk. People used to listen to them. But not anymore.

Now anyone who sees the government as anything other than the enemy to be destroyed is viewed as a traitor to their cause. Which remains the destruction of the federal government. And the owning of the libs.

All incited by the propaganda.

Yes political talk is free speech. But how is calling for Fauci to be killed protected? How is calling for me to be killed protected?

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

71. Which talk host called for you to be killed?

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

78. Rush Limbaugh

These guys think it is funny. Look at how t gave Limbaugh a congressional Medal of Honor.

Wow, what about all the people that he destroyed?

Ignoring these monsters has allowed them to flourish.

Ok, I shared my ideas and my fear of them. And you say they will not work.

Do you have any ideas of how to tamp down the rhetoric so that there would become a way for rural states to start electing normal people as Senators, not anti government anti women politicians only?

Do you have any idea how to stop crucifying the very few moderate dems who somehow manage to connect to people whose brains have been pickled in this insurrectionist nonsense for decades?

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

82. Details, please.

Do you have any ideas of how to tamp down the rhetoric so that there would become a way for rural states to start electing normal people as Senators, not anti government anti women politicians only?

I know of no way to silence right wing radio without tearing up the Constitution.

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

92. When did Limbaugh call for you to be killed? What did he say?

 

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

95. Im not going to go into it

But he frequently advocated violence against all sorts of people.

There were great jokes about what his hell would look like posted on DU once.

I got a good kick out of them. Wished that I had bookmarked them.

 

Star Member electric_blue68 (5,172 posts)

93. Limblarg...

to you directly as a person, or as part of a group he hated?
Either way it's terrifying! And disgusting.

I can remember people calling into his show sometime after Clinton was inaugurated that women should lose their right to vote. So, yeah, being a woman... Yikes.

(Listening to him was like yelling at the tv)

I don't know ... if there's in A1, and I think there is a distinction between saying on the radio person x should be killed vs being a speaker in a crowd and pointing at some perceived "problem person" x standing aways a bit as an onlooker any saying "kill that person.

tritsofme (14,996 posts)

41. Save Democracy by imprisoning and banning your political opponents?

Authoritarians like OP, whether on the left or right, are quite disturbing.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

46. And advocating spreading the pandemic to more people

by glorifying not masking and advocating not getting vaccinated.

I want these people prosecuted.

Why don’t you think they should bear any responsibility for what they have been promoting on our public airwaves?

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

51. Saying that vaccines are dangerous, while idiotic, is not a crime. Nor should it be.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

53. Well, guess what I disagree and

If you want to pretend that our democracy is in great shape, go right ahead.

But it is not.

And a good deal of the peril we are in is caused by the fact that this propaganda has been normalized and the culture impacted terribly by it.

Disproportionality in rural areas that have greater power per person per vote.

Another idea is to move masses of liberals to rural states and get them to vote these suckers out.

What is your solution?

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

48. 800,000 people dead of Covid?

What about the medical professionals attacked- see how it is 25 a day now?

See all the public health people resigning?

These calls for violence used to be only directed at us rural liberals. And female public servants such as Hilary and Nancy Pelosi.

But now it is any liberal anywhere.

I just do not think most people have any idea how ruthless and violent these guys are.

Ignoring it has allowed has not worked.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

58. Good luck, hoping that you can understand the depth of the disaster we find ourselves in interpreting the first amendment the way you are saying it has acts as though it is a dead thing. Not subject to reinterpretation over time and changes in media.

Notice how in Europe after Hitler they cracked down on hate speech on public airwaves? You think we are incapable of evolving?

Am I to understand that you have no courage to try to protect those who have born the brunt of their violence. For decades.

The point is that they have honed their skills picking on us, now they are out for the rest of the nation.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

91. And as a victim of the terrorization of the violent right wingers, you

accuse me of being an authoritarian.

No, any group of people who have suffered from their attack, asking for help in stopping it, is not asking for authoritarianism.

It is demanding that groups of people not be allowed to use public airwaves to terrorize other groups.

And the subject of this op is not me.

It is how I see that these guys began with rural liberals and have now gone national. Any way to crush liberals anywhere, anyhow is their goal.

And we need to be united against them, not each other.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

100. That is what everyone said 35 years ago and now we have

a senate that is 50% crazy right wing nut jobs.

And no hope of 60 senators who will be reasonable in any way shape or form.

And we pick on fellow dems for not doing the things that the crazy right wing controlling the Senate and almost the House prevent us from doing.

When it is not the fault of the democrats, but the result of this long term propaganda campaign that has changed the culture of rural areas in such a serious way that so many are at risk of dieting from a disease that they could be immunized against. But believe these nuts.

I am not saying ban them, I am saying sue them for the consequences of their rhetoric.

Calling for the death of public servants is not ok. Some people here like to say it is protected by the first amendment. I don’t think so. I think that these am stations have been mostly ignored and the damage has corroded our body politic immeasurably.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

73. I am a rural liberal and have been beat down by these guys

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and see what the country is facing. And I just cannot see how anyone, no matter how logical or caring or reasonable can reach these people who have been so brainwashed by the propaganda.

Most of us liberals in rural areas have been crying the alarm for a long time.

Seeing the work of the scientists at Malhuer just literally pissed on, thrown out, trashed…..

It is terrorizing.

And more are bragging about being insurrectionist and proud of how they will take the government down.

The normalizing of this disproportionally effects us as a nation because of the Senate and the electoral college. One voter in Wyoming is equal to like 3 in LA.

One idea is for great numbers of retired liberal seniors move to rural states, enough to vote in sane Senators. Maybe that would work.

But I cannot even begin to get past the decades of hateful rhetoric that these people consider to be the truth. And I have felt, for most of my adult life are risk. It is a form or terrorism. I see it now unleashed on everyone, not just us rural liberals. There are so few of us, we just have learned to hide for our own safety. But now the nation’s safety is at risk.

 

[ADsOutburst]

5. For some reason liberal radio never appealed enough

I know it’s been tried. Maybe another try is needed.

"For some reason". 

These guys think it is funny. Look at how t gave Limbaugh a congressional Medal of Honor.

 

[SVPete]

  Star Moron Tumbulu panties are in a tight wad and deep into his/her colon! Must've seen the ratings for his/her loco/local Radio Pacifica station or for MesSNBC and BMM.  

[Ralph Wiggum]

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

75. Why is threatening to kill Nancy Pelosi ok?

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Why were the attacks on Hillary never ending incitement of violence towards her not prosecuted?

I have never understood why these villains have always been given a free pass.

Now it is Fauci they want killed.

Never happened.  Cool story, bro.

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

17. Yep, always just throw that out, but the first amendment has limits and inciting violence against individuals is not protected. This idea that threatening people on public airwaves is protected is a huge part of the problem.

Perhaps you have not been the beneficiary of the hate media’s attack. But I have and it is not acceptable.

We are loosing public health people left right and center. We are losing many public servants of all sorts.

The right pushes the envelope on everything. It is time for us to push back.

In a very big way.

Sure you have, Sparky.  Proof please?

But he/her/it continues digging that well:

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

88. Well, I am glad that you are able to ignore them all

and it is why I think the problem has festered.

I do not see how we get out of this insurrection that we are experiencing. I feel very beaten down by the power this propaganda has amassed.

But maybe I am just too tired and sad from this never ending pandemic.

One of my old friends just died of Covid, not vaccinated because of the hate media influencers. I cannot wrap my head around all this death, and worry very much that the Senate will go Republican.

Then what?

Can you reason with your rural neighbors who listen to these radio personalities? Is your area mostly Republican or libertarian?

Sure...

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

71. Which talk host called for you to be killed?

And the big claim:

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

78. Rush Limbaugh

These guys think it is funny. Look at how t gave Limbaugh a congressional Medal of Honor.

Wow, what about all the people that he destroyed?

Ignoring these monsters has allowed them to flourish.

Ok, I shared my ideas and my fear of them. And you say they will not work.

Do you have any ideas of how to tamp down the rhetoric so that there would become a way for rural states to start electing normal people as Senators, not anti government anti women politicians only?

Do you have any idea how to stop crucifying the very few moderate dems who somehow manage to connect to people whose brains have been pickled in this insurrectionist nonsense for decades?

Dial H For Hero (1,979 posts)

92. When did Limbaugh call for you to be killed? What did he say?

Star Member Tumbulu (5,563 posts)

95. Im not going to go into it

But he frequently advocated violence against all sorts of people.

There were great jokes about what his hell would look like posted on DU once.

I got a good kick out of them. Wished that I had bookmarked them.

And, no proof.  Therefore:



Listened to Rush since late 1991, and NEVER once did he suggest killing someone with whom he disagreed politically.  As for this Lord Fauci/Watters thing, it was taken completely out of context.  Jesse used a metaphor, which was the "kill shot" of a question that would leave that lab coat tyrant utterly speechless, or wouldn't answer.

Get your panties out of a bunch and grow up.  Liberal butt hurt is constantly hilarious to watch you claim such misery about hearing words and ideas which you disagree with.

[dandi]

Limbaugh broke it down quite simply and logically as to why Left Wing radio has never caught on. In order for talk radio to hold interest it can't just be 2-3 hours of nothing but the host droning on, you have to have guests or callers with opposing points of view to be argued. Left wing radio by-and-large doesn't do that because their ideas are so easily picked apart and exposed. They're not going to take the chance of being made fools of by callers they may have no scripted answers for, so it just becomes an echo chamber and people soon lose interest and tune out. It's one of the reasons Air America died such a quick death.

Conservatives jump at the chance to debate liberals. Liberals do everything they can to shut down the free exchange of ideas. In everything from social media to college campuses to street protests, liberals letting conservatives speak is taboo. Marxism can't grow without tight controls on communication within the masses.

[USA4ME]

They’ve always held some strange belief that if conservative radio were to go away then conservative ideology would also cease to exist and we’d all live in harmony with Big Brother calling all the shots. I’ve never understood why they believe that, but it’s been a staple of their error in reasoning for years.

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[SVPete]

They’ve always held some strange belief that if conservative radio were to go away then conservative ideology would also cease to exist and we’d all live in harmony with Big Brother calling all the shots. I’ve never understood why they believe that, but it’s been a staple of their error in reasoning for years.

DU-grade Proggies cannot admit that decent intelligent informed people could come to believe anything contrary to the most current Prog-narratives (they have no actual fixed beliefs beyond their elitist superiority complex and entitlement to power).

[Wineslob]

AM Radio: We are pointing out the destruction of our Republic by Democrats.

Liberals/DUmmies: HATE SPEACH!

[Mr Mannn]

The good little dictators can't wait to outlaw all opposition speech. They are so close to power, they can taste the sweet tyranny.