Democrats have finally awakened to the need for Lakoffian message discipline within media – should they ever own anything remotely comparable to Rupert Murdoch’s empire – and government – should they ever hold the reins of real power again. This puts Democrats about where the GOP was in 1964, following Barry Goldwater’s landslide loss to Lyndon Johnson. The Right, per usual, remains several steps ahead. With the world’s largest, most disciplined government-media noise machine relentlessly thump–thumping falsehoods into American crania, the coast is finally clear for Phase 2 of the Great Power Transfer: total lock–down of the electoral process, a.k.a. the Democalypse. Read more in the Divided Times Newsletter. »
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 The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America, by John Sperling
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