[Cincinatus' Wife]

Below: comment at sourced article

“The real change in the character of the Republican Party was caused by the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine. This transformed AM radio — which had its share of right-wing cranks but was generally an apolitical general-information medium — into a national right-wing propaganda network of fact-free paranoia and manufactured partisan outrage.

With the addition of Fox News, Republicans began living in their own propaganda bubble completely divorced from reality and immune to logic, historical fact and scientific evidence.

As a result, middle-class Republicans supporting policies such as a flat tax, which will reduce taxes for billionaires while raising their own, are as brainwashed as North Koreans enthusiastically cheering their Dear Leader.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/31/the_conservative_crackup_how_the_republican_party_lost_its_mind/

[Jagman]

Here's where the real agenda of this article pokes through. The Democrats fully control the mainstream media; academia; and Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry. What's more, most of the people working for the federal government are democrats and willingly pursue Democrat agendas as recent demonstrated by the IRS and other agency scandals. In other words, there are virtually no major private or public institutions in the United States that they do not control. They own the culture. The only thing they don't really control is talk radio and they so they badly want to eliminate it. Hence the raison d’être for this article.

Given how high the odds are stacked against them, it's a wonder to me how any conservatives are elected at the national level.