Liberal democrats have ruled the airwaves—on TV network, cable, radio, and print—for so long that you’d be forgiven for assuming they had no more free time to conquer another medium. They’d be too busy winning elections and cruising to total culture dominance on a massive wave of popularity with the media-consuming public!
But… you’d be gloriously wrong.
It turns out that despite Democrats’ absolute dominance of 99% of the communications and media infrastructure in the nation, including all the mainstream channels, Hollywood, publishing, media, literally all magazines, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and more, they’d still somehow managed to lose a huge election.
Badly.
“But - but - but- but we control all the megaphones! How did our awesome message not get through? We are the best party, we had the best candidate. Why didn’t voters do what we told them to?”
Meanwhile, the Right won with a single friendly cable network, uniformly hostile newspapers, magazines, talk shows, and the Internet arrayed against it, and a single social media outlet that simply started allowing both sides to exercise their free speech.
Instead of finally figuring out that the problem was simply their message and their unpopular ideas and idiotic candidates, they had another brilliant idea.
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