The corporate media — entirely owned by ginormous media corporations and multi-billionaires — try to sell the FALSE idea that you can’t win by standing up for working people and the middle class and standing up against the big corporations.
Democrats thought it would be best to “play it safe” and nominate the most “electable” in 2000 (Gore), 2004 (Kerry) and 2016 (Hillary).
In 2016, no serious person thought Trump was “electable.”
In 2008, Democrats were terrified that an African American with the VERY African name of “Barack Obama” was unelectable (we’re all used to the name now, but remember how exotic it sounded the first time you heard it?). And to make matters worse, his MIDDLE name is “Hussein” while we were fighting a war against the atrocities of Saddam Hussein.
I am old enough to remember 1980, when Republicans’ biggest fear was that a washed-up B-movie actor with extreme right-wing views was unelectable, and we Democrats were champing at the bit for Reagan to get the nomination.
What Trump, Obama and Reagan all had in common was “what you see is what you get.” And all three of them had the number one most “electable” quality: they knew how to frame and control their message.
Ask Hillary about e-mails and she gets bogged down in it.
Ask Trump about paying off porn stars, Access Hollywood, serial adulteries, barging in on UNDRESSED UNDERAGE Miss TEEN contestants, multiple bankruptcies and business failures, corruption, tax returns, WHATEVER, and he deflects and talks about whatever HE wants to talk about.
The corporate media — entirely owned by ginormous media corporations and multi-billionaires — try to sell the FALSE idea that you can’t win by standing up for working people and the middle class and standing up against the big corporations.
Democrats thought it would be best to “play it safe” and nominate the most “electable” in 2000 (Gore), 2004 (Kerry) and 2016 (Hillary).
In 2016, no serious person thought Trump was “electable.”
In 2008, Democrats were terrified that an African American with the VERY African name of “Barack Obama” was unelectable (we’re all used to the name now, but remember how exotic it sounded the first time you heard it?). And to make matters worse, his MIDDLE name is “Hussein” while we were fighting a war against the atrocities of Saddam Hussein.
I am old enough to remember 1980, when Republicans’ biggest fear was that a washed-up B-movie actor with extreme right-wing views was unelectable, and we Democrats were champing at the bit for Reagan to get the nomination.
What Trump, Obama and Reagan all had in common was “what you see is what you get.” And all three of them had the number one most “electable” quality: they knew how to frame and control their message.
Ask Hillary about e-mails and she gets bogged down in it.
Ask Trump about paying off porn stars, Access Hollywood, serial adulteries, barging in on UNDRESSED UNDERAGE Miss TEEN contestants, multiple bankruptcies and business failures, corruption, tax returns, WHATEVER, and he deflects and talks about whatever HE wants to talk about.