[marktwain]

I think you have it nearly all wrong. It was not conservatism that died, but rather the MSM realizing that it had to more actively defend progressivism. They had dominated the political landscape for decades, and were blindsided by the defeat they received in 1994, which occured largely because of the increase in new media.

In 1994, I thought that what we had was a political problem, and that the majorities in the House and Senate would result in real change. What happened made me reassess my premise. The Republicans tried to make real change, and had some modest sucess. Then, the MSM started attacking them relentlessly, and refusing to allow the conservatives to get their views out.

It became clear that the real problem, and the real power in the country was the MSM, which was overwhelmingly “progressive”, which set the agenda, and who decided what was important and what was not, and how issues should be framed.

Now we are in a battle to create enough new media to overcome the MSM. In many ways, we are winning.

[SatinDoll]

When formerly middle class people, like Tom Delay and Denny Hastert, leave Congress with riches, then corruption in Congress is the problem.