A word of advice about controlling the Democratic Party message

[JCanete]

27. Where I agree with you is that refighting the primary is pointless, and that energy spent

explaining what went wrong is pointless. I also agree that we can't know what is going to win the next election. We don't know who is going to emerge and who isn't, or what the political realities are going to be. To talk about a winning strategy is pretty much pointless.

Talking about a sure-fire LOSING STRATEGY though...has got to be done, and I'm going to keep pounding this point, hell, at least until people start actually addressing it in my posts. We can't keep pretending as a party that the media is a disinterested entity. We have got to stop kissing up to it and start, with a united front, taking it to task for carrying the water of major corporations. And arguably, we can't do that, because we're playing nice with those corporations. We're being tactful..."practical." Except that what practical looks like is always having 40 to 48 percent of our branches of government. We have just enough "control" to continue to sell an illusion of democracy to the populace.

There is one force that lost us this election, and loses us election after election, and that is the corporate media, hands down.I tell you, we've got to fight it. I don't care whether you like a more moderate policy when it comes to economics and think that those at the far left are too uncompromising and unrealistic, this is a scourge that affects the possibilities for moderate legislation and liberal legislation alike.