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necturusYou know political discourse in America is in trouble when labels like "liberal", "leftist", and "socialist" are being used interchangeably. The problem is the lack of any left wing in American politics. There is a center, represented by President Obama, and a right, represented by Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and too many others to name, but nothing on the left at all.
The answer, I think, is to give some air time to true socialists and let them hammer the President and the Democrats from the left. A non-profit foundation needs to acquire one or more radio stations in major markets on behalf of some Marxist organization, preferably one notorious enough to attract mainstream media attention. The idea is not to win converts or advance any particular agenda, but to shed new and different light on current political, economic, and social trends. Talk radio is a broken record; it's time to introduce some new perspective.
The time is right to pick up some moribund AM station and put CPUSA on the air. The trick is that it would have to be done by radio people, people who understand how to attract, entertain, and inform. There must be nothing like the southern fried preachers who analyze obscure Old Testament passages to death in the wee hours of the morning, nor any of the angry ranting one hears from too many on the right. Red Radio must be mindful of the fate of Air America.
Needless to say, it would need to be a non-commercial enterprise. No business enterprise could conceivably buy commercials in a Communist radio program without discrediting both the program and itself.
I've no idea where the money would come from for such a project, but the time is certainly right for it.
The answer, I think, is to give some air time to true socialists and let them hammer the President and the Democrats from the left. A non-profit foundation needs to acquire one or more radio stations in major markets on behalf of some Marxist organization, preferably one notorious enough to attract mainstream media attention. The idea is not to win converts or advance any particular agenda, but to shed new and different light on current political, economic, and social trends. Talk radio is a broken record; it's time to introduce some new perspective.
The time is right to pick up some moribund AM station and put CPUSA on the air. The trick is that it would have to be done by radio people, people who understand how to attract, entertain, and inform. There must be nothing like the southern fried preachers who analyze obscure Old Testament passages to death in the wee hours of the morning, nor any of the angry ranting one hears from too many on the right. Red Radio must be mindful of the fate of Air America.
Needless to say, it would need to be a non-commercial enterprise. No business enterprise could conceivably buy commercials in a Communist radio program without discrediting both the program and itself.
I've no idea where the money would come from for such a project, but the time is certainly right for it.
