Originally Posted by roachboy

i dont think it follows from outlining that there is a right media apparatus, and saying that it performs certain functions, necesarily leads you, stevo (or anyone else) to the conclusion that conservatives are seen as a bunch of stupid people.
if only things were that simple.
if only thinking that conservative=stupid was not a way of radically misunderstanding and underestimating the adversary.

no single move has a denser history of leading to disaster than does underestimating the adversary.


as an aside: i note in this and other threads the prominent role playted by self-pity in conservative responses to critiques of any kind, really--o well, you "liberals" think we are stupid--statements that have more to do with the right's quirk of thinking the opposition as some kind of "elite" than it does anything remotely like an understanding of the opposition. i think conservatives hope--dearly, truly hope--that they are being understood in this way--it justifies ignoring critique, it justifies further enclosing the already restricted/restricting political space within which this ideology can operate.

that posts from "the left" fall into this---my own included---is a tactical mistake. the results are almost ineviatbly a rehearsal of the same line from conservatives, with the same effect of shutting down exchange.