Very insightful writing, Laurence. I am finding it is all somehow so much clearer what went wrong than it was before the election and the Democrats pour performance with the voters.
Here is an interesting further detail that I've found out through Matt Taibbi's Substack--I'll just quote him verbatim:
"Joe Rogan is the most influential media figure in America, and it’s not close. The current tally for his interview of Trump 12 days ago is 46,696,792 views. When he interviewed Edward Snowden, 38 million people turned in. Five years ago, 18.3 million listened to then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.... Everyone who’s done Rogan’s show travels to his studio in Texas and does three hours. It’s the deal. Harris didn’t decline, she just insisted Rogan travel to Washington and limit discussion to an hour. He passed. Remember, he didn’t need her. She needed him. Desperate to persuade men and independents, the Democratic candidate passed on reaching 45 or 50 million people outside the party bubble. That’s no trifle. It’s sending a powerful message that you don’t want those votes..."
A nice story about your meeting with a woman from Texas in a Calgary bar. And maybe you're right about the 'thought police' and the denouncements of things people have said or done' and your yearning for 'old-timey' politics. Maybe LBJ should never have pushed Kennedy's Civil Rights Act to Congress and then pressed the House to pass it in 1964. Maybe the US Supreme Court should have gone the other way on Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ten years earlier. Hell, maybe Lincoln should have found a 'common ground' on slavery in 1861. You've got a pretty naive take here my dude.
Very insightful writing, Laurence. I am finding it is all somehow so much clearer what went wrong than it was before the election and the Democrats pour performance with the voters.
Thanks!
Here is an interesting further detail that I've found out through Matt Taibbi's Substack--I'll just quote him verbatim:
"Joe Rogan is the most influential media figure in America, and it’s not close. The current tally for his interview of Trump 12 days ago is 46,696,792 views. When he interviewed Edward Snowden, 38 million people turned in. Five years ago, 18.3 million listened to then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.... Everyone who’s done Rogan’s show travels to his studio in Texas and does three hours. It’s the deal. Harris didn’t decline, she just insisted Rogan travel to Washington and limit discussion to an hour. He passed. Remember, he didn’t need her. She needed him. Desperate to persuade men and independents, the Democratic candidate passed on reaching 45 or 50 million people outside the party bubble. That’s no trifle. It’s sending a powerful message that you don’t want those votes..."
A nice story about your meeting with a woman from Texas in a Calgary bar. And maybe you're right about the 'thought police' and the denouncements of things people have said or done' and your yearning for 'old-timey' politics. Maybe LBJ should never have pushed Kennedy's Civil Rights Act to Congress and then pressed the House to pass it in 1964. Maybe the US Supreme Court should have gone the other way on Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ten years earlier. Hell, maybe Lincoln should have found a 'common ground' on slavery in 1861. You've got a pretty naive take here my dude.