The right wing media sphere being so much larger and more influential than the left is because they have every institutional and infrastructural advantage. The right has the money to fund them, the hosting platforms have an interest in boosting them.
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On the left, the expectation was - & remains - that you will work for free or close to it. So the young folks who could build the bench end up moving on to other work.
I spent my 20s to early 30s working in Democratic and progressive, public interest politics. But at some point, you need things like health insurance.
i know there’s not a lot of overlap between college football and leftism but it’s like how the SEC “wins” every single *hypothetical* game against non SEC teams. if you’re not in the actual game it’s easy to claim to be perfect
And that is baked into the very fabric of capitalism.
And yet despite all that power, they suck so badly at using it, that we may yet have a small chance.
Now?
what motivations might there be for billionaire media owners to promote those conservative platforms over liberal ones? for legitimate democrat policy differences to never show up on your billionaire controlled feed?
I think the clear cutting before the sowing gets overlooked sometimes