Why Can't Liberals Make it on Talk Radio?

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Quote from oktiri:

YES. Because "Capitalism" has been hijacked by fringe elements of the Republican party who confuse efficient free market theory with a "laissez faire attitude."
To dumb it down. Traffic wouldn't function without lights, stop signs and rules. However, we're all "free" to take our cars and go wherever we please. Repubs have a hard time understanding this. They think "free" is unregulated. I guess if you poll them, most wouldn't even believe in anti-trust laws, they'll think the "market will eventually sort itself out"
Its hard to use logic to convince people who believe Jesus walked with dinosaurs.

Funny picture.
I understand your answer completely. So it is really human nature that need some regulation, because people do what will give them (personally) the most gain at the moment, and not what is good for them as a whole people? A survival instinct.

 

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Quote from trendlover:

Funny picture.
I understand your answer completely. So it is really human nature that need some regulation, because people do what will give them (personally) the most gain at the moment, and not what is good for them as a whole people? A survival instinct.

Normally, "deferred satisfaction" is a sign of intelligence. that's why you don't drop out of high school and go work for McDonalds when you know you can make 10 times more if you're patient, go to college,work hard, achieve and land a well paying white collar job.
The US has become the country of buy "now, pay later." Instant gratification, long term liabilities..and that's just not for Plasma TVs, unfunded entitlements, unfunded tax cuts, poorly planned wars.
What we've gone through the last 4 weeks is payback time and it's far from being over.

 

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Quote from oktiri:

Normally, "deferred satisfaction" is a sign of intelligence. that's why you don't drop out of high school and go work for McDonalds when you know you can make 10 times more if you're patient, go to college,work hard, achieve and land a well paying white collar job.
The US has become the country of buy "now, pay later." Instant gratification, long term liabilities..and that's just not for Plasma TVs, unfunded entitlements, unfunded tax cuts, poorly planned wars.
What we've gone through the last 4 weeks is payback time and it's far from being over.

I understand go to school, work hard, and get a good job so life is comfortable. But who is going to be the workers at the low paying job if everyone is finishing high school, then college, and can get a good job? No corporation can afford to pay all the workers big money.

 

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Quote from Mercor:

You have no core beliefs, just like all liberals. This last rant is so loaded with misassumptions, stereotyping and simplistic string logic.

You need to take a couple of deep breaths before you hit the enter button.

you're a fucking fool.

you haven't ventured more than a few miles outside of po-dunk city pop 100

what the fuck do you know about the world except for what Limbaugh and hanity feeds your feeble brain.

 

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Quote from NeoRio1:

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No question that conservative talk shows enjoy huge leads over anything from the Dems.

However, that may be changing:

Rachel Maddow, a woman who does not own a television set, has done something that is virtually unheard of: she has doubled the audience for a cable news channel’s 9 p.m. hour in a matter of days.
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More important for her bosses at MSNBC is that “The Rachel Maddow Show,” her left-leaning news and commentary program, has averaged a higher rating among 25- to 54-year-olds than “Larry King Live” on CNN for 13 of the 25 nights she has been host. While the average total audience of her program remains slightly smaller than that of Mr. King’s, Ms. Maddow, 35, has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/television/21madd.html?hp

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