Analytics wrote:Just to review a few of his conservative credentials, David Frum was George W. Bush's speech writer and is credited with coining the term "axis of evil." He's been the editorial-page editor of The Wall Street Journal, the editor of National Review and a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.
In the video, David Frum says "Republicans have been fleeced, exploited, and lied to be a conservative entertainment complex."
Joe Scarborough asks him to name names. Frum replies, "there are too many to name."
He goes on to say, "The followers and the donors and the activists are so mistaken about the nature of the problem the country is facing. I mean, just a simple question. I went to tea-party rallies and I would ask, 'have taxes gone up or down in the last four years?' They could not answer that question correctly."
I'm guessing the chances that bcspace actually listened to that clip are zero.
I think mainstream republicans are recognizing the frankenstein. The frankenstein is the right-wing media complex that has created a nearly hermetically sealed bubble in which a certain segment of the far-right wing of the republican base resides. This has created a false reality for these people, in which they firmly believe most of the country is as radical as they are on certain topics - abortion, immigration, refusing to raise taxes on the wealthy. If they were to step outside the bubble, they would realize that this isn't actually true, the majority of the country does not agree with these particular ideological stances. But they're in the sealed bubble, in which the only voices they're exposed to are the voices from the right-wing media complex, which tells them what they want to hear without undue concern about facts. It's the ENTERTAINMENT industry they are relying on for factual information. Hence, we see that Fox news viewers actually know LESS about the world than those who don't watch any news, if I recall the study correctly.
I'm not saying that the left does not also have this problem. It does, but not quite to the same extent because the "left-wing media complex" has never taken off like the right-wing one has.
This has become a problem because there is now a portion of the republican base that is adamant about the rightness of these extreme positions to the point where compromise has become a dirty word. One cannot govern without compromise, and now the republicans see one cannot be elected without compromise when the demographics shift. The right refused to compromise on immigration and abortion, and I would suspect those two issues alone cost them mightily in terms of votes.
The frankenstein then grew legs when wealthy donors became engrained and entrapped in the same bubble. These wealthy donors gave Karl Rove millions of dollars, and then listened to republican pollsters and members of the right-wing entertainment complex assure them that Romney was going to win in a LANDSLIDE. And even ROMNEY bought into it. From reports, he was SHOCKED that he lost.
Now the question is, now that their eyes are opening as to the frankenstein, is it too late? Is frankenstein already out of control?
The entertainment value of watching droopy and bcspace unravel aside, I sincerely hope it isn't too late. This country needs a healthy two party system. I am a democrat, but I don't want a one party system. The democratic party would become lazy and privileged, more prone to corruption. That is what happens to any one party system. But right now the republican party isn't healthy, and I think the mainstreamers are recognizing that in a painful way.