For Balladeer’s Blog’s new readers, especially from overseas, this may clarify my reasons for so openly despising both of the rival gangs of white-collar criminals called the Democrat and Republican Parties. That contempt applies to the people who run those two gangs, not the general voters.
Here are some highlights from that November of 2022 blog post, which blasted both major parties after last year’s midterm elections. I will repeat this is for readers who express confusion regarding my preference for being an Independent Voter.
RELEVANT EXCERPTS:
“As regular readers know I despise both the Republican and Democrat Parties and would like to see them both splinter into multiple smaller parties, which means I can provide a non-partisan view.
“(By the way, I’m one of the few sites – either Democrat OR Republican – which did NOT pretend that some mythical Red Wave was coming. I got accused of being a “secret Democrat shill” for that, but as always, I was just offering my non-partisan take.)
“The Republicans took back the House from Democrat control, but Republicans won fewer seats than they did in 2020, when it was the Democrats who were disappointed by how badly they did and how many seats they lost. (Democrats were claiming all that year that they would dramatically increase their seats in the House but instead they lost big.)
“Without the Democrat losses in 2020 there is no way the Republicans would have taken back the House this time around. Hey, who was at the top of their ballot in 2020? Oh, right, the guy their party’s Bush-Cheney establishment hates.”
“BOTH THE DEMOCRATS AND THE REPUBLICANS STILL INSIST ON PRETENDING EVERYTHING IS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. The cesspool of corruption which masquerades as America’s political system still hates nothing more than outsiders like Donald Trump. (Even though a CNN poll after voting found the vast majority say that neither Biden nor Trump had anything to do with which candidate they (voters) chose. )
“If the Republicans had seen their mythical Red Wave hit, they would have insisted that it proved they didn’t need Trump on the ballot to win big. Now that the Republicans were once again left looking foolish, they’re trying to blame it on Trump, anyway. It was virtually a no-lose situation for the anti-Trump forces. More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.
“ Trump’s endorsed candidates won over 80% of their races in the elections last week, yet obsessive anti-Trump people claim that those winning candidates would have won anyway. Hypocritically, they do not say that his losing endorsees would have lost anyway. Plus, other Republican politicians and media outlets endorsed those same losing candidates. More HERE.”
“PLACES LIKE FLORIDA, WHICH TOOK STEPS AGAINST FRAUD-FRIENDLY PROCEDURES INCLUDING VOTE BY MAIL, BALLOT HARVESTING, SLOW-COUNTING, ETC DID VERY WELL FOR THE REPUBLICANS. In the past, I’ve detailed how and why the Democrats have so much success with such antics.”
And by the way, wasn’t the widespread Vote by Mail (which is NOT the same as absentee voting) supposed to go away after Covid? Until the people who run the Republican Party get serious about combatting such fraud-friendly procedures, they can go on blaming their own candidates forever and it will only get worse. More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.”
“THE REPUBLICANS STILL REFUSE TO BE COMPETITIVE IN THE MEDIA ARMS RACE. All of America’s media outlets are biased toward one political party or the other. Places like Fox News, One America News, Newsmax, the New York Post, etc, are biased in favor of Republicans. Places like CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, the Jeff Bezos Post, etc, are biased in favor of Democrats.”
“At present, the people who run the Republican Party are still reluctant to spend money on media outlets, because media impact cannot be measured on a profit and loss sheet. (Yet media dominance has certainly done very well for the Democrats, who prioritize flooding the country with their talking points no matter the cost in mere money.)”
“In the 2000 and 2004 elections, with the virtually lone Fox News Channel, Republicans saw their horrible candidate – the repulsive and disastrous George W. Bush – get to, and then stay in, the White House, with many people crediting Fox as a large reason why. You’d think Republican Party power players would have finally realized the importance of media outlets for messaging. Nope. Since then, they’ve added very few outlets of their own, consumed by fears of “splitting audience share.”
“Republican VOTERS, however, realize the importance of the Media Arms Race. For just one example, in Florida, Hispanic-American Republicans rallied to try contesting the Democrat takeover of several Spanish Language radio stations, but the actual Republican Party movers and shakers did nothing.”
“THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL THINK THEIR FAILURES COME DOWN TO “POOR MESSAGING.” Hilarious! Because of how few media outlets Republicans have compared to Democrats very, very few people ever even KNOW what the Republican candidates’ “messages” are, let alone if they agree with them or not.”
“By being so passive in the Media Arms Race, the Republicans’ “message” is defined by the Democrats’ media outlets, which, if you haven’t gotten my meaning yet, still dramatically outnumber Republican media outlets. To casual voters, the Republicans are only what the Democrats’ media outlets have told them they are.”
“Flipping channels, casual voters can come across countless presentations of the Democrat Party views, but only a tiny number of presentations of the Republican Party views. And even that’s only if they haven’t simply blocked those few channels because the enormous number of Democrat media outlets have assured them that those channels are just evil propaganda.”
THE CLUELESS BUFFOONS WHO RUN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THE OPPOSITION PARTY’S MEDIA OUTLETS SUCCEED IN MAKING THEIR CANDIDATES “THE NEW HITLER” OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
“In the past, Republicans have idiotically gone along with candidates that the Democrats and their outlets have assured them were “more palatable” to moderates and independents. Yet, you’ll notice that Mitt Romney and John McCain lost their presidential campaigns anyway, and Jeb Bush failed to even get past the primaries!
“Gee, it’s almost like public sentiment is so thoroughly weighted to perceive Republican candidates as racist, sexist, warmongering rich pigs that THAT perception is to blame, more than individual candidates. (Despite the media assurances that he was perceived favorably, McCain was still identified with Hitler, just like George W. Bush was, and Romney did no better.)”
“And remember, though the Republican Party establishment apparently forgot, Republicans were cemented in the public’s mind as racists, sexists, and warmongering rich pigs LONG DECADES BEFORE DONALD TRUMP CAME ALONG. Stop acting like Republican candidates were considered soft, warm and cuddly until Trump. He had nothing to do with the public perception of Republicans as virtual Nazis. Remember George W. Bush for just one example.”
“If anything, Trump had to fight upstream against the (to many voters) “stain” of having that (R) after his name. If Republicans abandon Trump, all their candidates will STILL have to wear that R like a Scarlet Letter until the Republican establishment fights back effectively in the Media Arms Race. As it is, they would rather attack and abandon ANY of their candidates who push back against the opposition party’s media outlets.”
REPUBLICAN POWER PLAYERS STILL DON’T GET IT. You can watch and read and hear plenty of Republican Party operatives saying that they need candidates who don’t seem like “haters” or “fanatics.” Statements like that have it all backwards – once a Republican candidate gains public momentum, the numerous hostile media outlets go on to PORTRAY them as haters and fanatics.
Hell, just go back through old IMDb user reviews to see how this carries over to public perception. No matter who the most vile fictional villain is in movies at any time since IMDb launched, that villain is always compared to the most prominent Republican of the moment, be it George W. Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump … and presumably Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley or whoever goes up to bat for the Republicans next.
*** Regular readers know that I spent most of my life as a Democrat before leaving that increasingly fascistic and intolerant party to become an Independent Voter (and are sick of hearing it, I’m sure). But I take shots at both major parties, so if you’re a new reader who needs proof of that, click HERE.
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Good summary.
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Thank you!