Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Um... /whoosh?
Liberals love to portray their positions as being derived by "the people", in contrast to Conservative views, which are supposedly imposed on us all by a small number of rich and powerful people.
Honestly, I have no clue what you're trying to argue here. If I saw some guy making the same argument on MSNBC, I wouldn't think "Wow, and here I thought MSNBC was funded by bake sales and recyclables drives!" Why on earth would I assume a radio station isn't run like 95% of the other radio stations just because the guy on there is saying some liberal stuff?
Wow! You're totally unable to grasp what I'm talking about. That's... amazing.
It's not about funding for the damn show Joph. OMFnG is it not. It's about the belief perpetuated among liberals that their "side" is about "the people", while conservatives are associated with "the rich". It's a constant theme. Hell, this idea is probably present in nearly every single political thread on this forum. It's something that liberals just assume, but rarely ever stop to think about.
Which is why a guy on a biased politically focused radio show, which everyone who stops and thinks about it should realize is funded by some big corporation owned/controlled by a smallish number of "rich people", can rail about how it's unfair for rich people to be able to use their money to influence people politically, and most of his audience wont realize the hypocrisy of what he's saying. Hell. I've explained it to you and
you can't see it. I'm not saying that they don't intellectually know that it's rich people who own the station, but that they don't associate that with the message being said.
It's like Liberals calling Tea Party rallies "astroturf" and making fun of their hand written (and sometimes misspelled) signs, all the while praising rallies funded by big money donors with slick glossy signs and thousands of matching t-shirts. It's something that liberals just don't think about. It *should* be obvious that their "side" is just as funded by rich folks (possibly even more so really). But they don't seem to consciously recognize it. That's the point I'm making.
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They've just been fooled into thinking that "the rich" only side with conservatives. [...] Some of us are just more aware of this than others, I guess.
I guess. Hell, I was so unaware of all the liberals being fooled into this that I forgot to be fooled into thinking it.
Apparently so.
Edited, Apr 2nd 2014 7:24pm by gbaji