Anti-American government Republicans get voted in only because citizens are being lied to by right wing conservative media. Reagan's trickle down disaster would never have lasted for decades had it not been for misinformation which went on steroids after the Fairness Doctrine got eliminated, Fox propaganda network being a case in point.

Nothing will change until truth reaches people who vote in the Paul Ryans of our government.

Bernie was getting the truth out and the country started to respond, then silence. The billionaire weapon of mass misinformation is responsible for the billionaire vision taking hold.....a weapon of truth is needed more than ever now. Bernie was that weapon.

Without control of the message the billionaires would still be paying pre Reagan tax rates.

The media is the horse here...Reaganomics is the cart.

Thanks Thom, your blog post is an urgent reminder to vote down ballot and vote progressive. Local races and ballot issues matter! Here in Colorado we have an opportunity to vote for universal healthcare, Amendment 69. Unfortunately everyone's attention seems to be focused on GOP trainwreck, Donald Trump. Big insurance and Koch funded groups have payed for many silly ads telling folks here to vote against Amendment 69, but not even telling us what it is. I know that the pro Amendment 69 group has a real dissadvatage in funding. Their website is pretty good and answers people's concerns in a straight forward manner. Please check it out http://colorado69.org

The reasons for Republican men reacting so strongly to Trump's trivialization of sexual assault of women aren't simple, but they are definitely worth looking at more closely. Do you know how, before women entered the workforce back in the 50s, we were subjugated in the sense that we provided free labor to men in the home and were treated as children all our lives basically, but, some perks came along with that? (De'Beauvoir famously called the benefits women get for performing femininity under male supremacy the "delights of passivity" and, while she argued and I'd argue they aren't worth sacrificying the goal of true liberation to, they are real, they do win you approval from men, they are easier and quicker to get than liberation, and, in some ways, they feel good, otherwise women wouldn't do them). In the 50s, when women "knew our place" more, at least according to a patriarchal world view, we were allowed to be a lot heavier physically (ie, we didn't have to starve ourselves to be considered beautiful), we were given a modicum of honor and respect for our role in the home as mothers and caregivers, and, even if that respect was paternalistic, we were treated "sweetly" for giving compliance. As women moved into the work force and asserted our indepence and power relative to men, you can see fashion trends becoming more sadistic, women having to be thinner and younger even (a young woman is more likely to be naive, after all, easier to control, less "uppity" by virtue of her lack of experience) and men's pornography of women in particular became much more violent, degrading, and contemptuous in its attitudes towards women. It's as though men have responded to our expanding freedoms in some areas of society by more ferociously "putting us back in our place" in others, particularly the realm of sex.

I think of Republican women as being more like 50s style women, in the sense that, they don't challenge traditional gender roles and they are loyal to their men. So, maybe as a result of that, they have more input and sway on Republican men on some level than Liberal women do on their males. It seems like Bill Clinton could, after all, humiliate women in such deeply degrading ways (sticking a cigar in a woman who orally services you on her knees at your command whenever you take her into a private enclave at work and simply unzip your trousers is about as far from egalitarian sex as one could get, and that's not even mentioning the assault and rape charges, which, to me, do feel credible) and yet, men on the Left did nothing, said nothing, even, in the cases of figures like Bill Maher and Chris Rock, romanticized Clinton's "exploits." It's almost as though men on the Left feel a contempt or, at least disregard for women's humanity in sex that men on the Right haven't gotten to yet (not, mind you, because they are more compassionate towards women, but because "their women" have been more compliant). Still, as women, we wait and wait for our men, that is, progressive men, those who claim to support feminism, those who claim to care about our status in society, to condemn Bill Clinton's misogyny and sexual predation of women, to show some anger towards him on our behalf. But that anger never comes, and my sneaking suspicion is that it's because most Leftist men would still rather *be* President Clinton than condemn him.

I'll try to be clear! Trump is a direct result of control and manipulation of the corp media.

Very wealthy individuals who have more wealth and power than our elected officials both own and use networks like Fox News in addition to endless extreme right wing radio broadcasts to confuse listeners/ viewers. A woman who called Thom yesterday and with great vehemence declared "I want more than anything to see Hillary locked up." is a great example of that confusion.

Becoming that twisted requires hearing endless broadcasts repeating over and over and over and over agian...Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi ,e-mails, emails, emails. It's a time tested Fascist technique.

We can bemoan all we want about Bernie not being our candidate. The right wing monopolized corpse media defeated Bernie. We no longer have our fourth branch of government, it has been seized by the Fascists.

Hillary is the Democratic candidate not because of super delegates or whatever other fraud may have been implemented, she's our candidate because the truth is no longer reaching the masses.

BTW: Paul Ryan is no different than Trump or Pence , maybe even more dangerous....the lack of truth in reporting is the only reason he has been placed in office.

Trump very likely raped a 13 year old, yet we still hear nothing about it. .....google it, the info is out there.

Trump is TOO Much

{… a rhyme …}

We conclude that Trump is TOO crude;

he oughta be booed for being TOO lewd.

TOO much of moral tur-pi-tude, -

- and in Other ways TOO with badness imbued,

with his Id-driven Ego which can’t be subdued.

TOO much lacking in rec-ti-tude.

TOO much for virtue no ap-ti-tude.

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Hillary was wrong, its not half of them but ALL of them that are deplorables!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Republicans are ignorant, evil and really make me sick!!!!!!!!!!

That's rough. Besides, things are more complicated today. Think about it: Democrats and liberals wrote the jobless poor off as something less than human, therefore undeserving of the most basic human rights (UN's UDHR) of food and shelter. The majority of poor are white, and the majority of these are women. (We call poor people of color "disadvantaged," and still refer to poor white people as "white trash.") We know that not everyone is able to work (health, etc.), and that there aren't jobs for all, and have decided that the poor are mere "surplus population," dispensible. No question, Trump's words are ugly, but not as ugly as the consequences of the Democrats' policies or the liberals' flat indifference.

Your male naivete is showing. You have no idea.

TomDorr - Do you imply that a victim of rape is part of a "two to tango" scenario?

Republican politicians are just saying their disapproval because they don't want to be hurt in elections.

But when it comes to male politicians, there are no political or philosophical divisions between those that "womanize". Power is power.

Even Barney Frank used his power to seduce a page, although that page was male.

Party, philosophy, sexual identity. Doesn't matter. Those in power will seek attractive female (or young male) conquests, and attractive females (and young males) will always be present in enough numbers to play this game.

Except for rape, it takes two to tango.