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One of the Democrats' greater failures is the lack of a Party media infrastructure that they could use to control the narrative. Republicans have Fox and the right-wing media ecosystem, but Democrats never bothered to capture their own media to push their own message and agenda.
There are definitely friendly media groups, but they're not loyal. They just happen to agree with Democrats more than Republicans. If the government shut down they'd turn on Democrats.
Only one party has media control and so only one party controls the message. I have no doubt that Democrats would have failed to defend themselves if they voted against Republicans - but that speaks to their failure to make their own media more than the vote itself.
That’s true. I think I prefer it that way. If I could choose, I’d rather Fox and Truth Social didn’t exist over adding a left-wing loyalist media platform.
Okay, but Fox does exist and it's not going to be outlawed any time soon. Not having a response to Fox is liberal idealism.
It's one of the reasons we're in this situation.
Do you prefer Democrats being unable to fight back because any attempt to do so would be smeared by the media? It's not like corporate media is unbiased, they just aren't biased towards Democrats.
That’s fair. I’d like to see a real progressive platform. A liberal bias would be too close to an MSNBC clone.