Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/did-talk-radio-kill-conservatism.html
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Radio is hard, anyone who listened to mush mouth JD host his own show (for Artie) the other day knows this.
/if you don't know JD don't worry about it
The problem is the few that can do it well, become the voice of the 'movement', which is not always a good thing. It apparently worked for many years but they got exactly what they wanted (power) and blew it royally.
/if you don't know JD don't worry about it
The problem is the few that can do it well, become the voice of the 'movement', which is not always a good thing. It apparently worked for many years but they got exactly what they wanted (power) and blew it royally.
I think it's a rather silly analysis. Firstly, for the whole premise:
This might be the key passage of my interview with John Ziegler on Tuesday, for it is, in a nutshell, why conservatives don't win elections anymore.
By "conservatives don't win elections any more" he means that they've lost two congressional elections in a row. And one Presidential election. That's not a death of anything, that's just a normal part of the political cycle.
Secondly, for his proposed reason:
There are a certain segment of conservatives who literally cannot believe that anybody would see the world differently than the way they do. They have not just forgotten how to persuade; they have forgotten about the necessity of persuasion.
And that's supposed to be unique to conservatives how? Being unable to believe that others don't think the way you do is extremely common on both sides of politics. Working at a university as I do, the left-wing equivalent is almost ubiquitous among just about everybody I talk to on a day-to-day basis.