roachboy

well, like i wrote in the town hall thread i think there are two political problems converging from opposite sides:
a tactical mistake on the part of the obama administration over how to best go about building consensus around health care reform. they seem to have thought it a good idea to build around the general idea of it. as it turned out, this left an opening for the right to wheel into attack mode--it gave a common enemy for the wreckage that is the american conservative movement, and worse enabled it to elaborate a series of "the conservative position(s)" without much of anything in the way of actual information or content.

add to this the commercial interests of the various corporate sectors involved with this debate, and you have a well-funded donnybrook of considerable magnitude.

what it looks like to me is that the right is playing a scortched earth kinda game here: unable to distinguish it's own political misfortunes--entirely self-inflicted so presumably hard to deal with---with the state of things in general, it seems the conservative media machine is now content to demonstrate its remaining power by trying to disable this debate altogether. as if it's objective is solely and entirely grinding obama to a halt, handing him a perceived defeat---and relying on the microscopic attention span of news cycles and those who inhabit them to elaborate the nature and meaning of the defeat---this because it's all about image at this point.

in a bigger sense, what's responsible for this degenerate state of affairs is the shocking and consistently low quality of infotainment in the dominant media environment. but that's a big one.

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