General Discussion

It's the media as well.

Yes, there are online sites with well-considered and well-written essays.

Yes, there are broadcast media that serve our purposes like MSNBC and Progressive Voices and some isolated radio stations that have progressive hosts. NPR may be independent, but it stops short of progressive.

I've watched it happen in the New York City metropolitan area. In the late 90s, AM radio had three (three!) non-conservative radio stations: WABC, WWOR, and WEVD. Hosts like Lynn Samuels, Jay Diamond, Alan Colmes, Bill Mazer, Sam Greenfield. Rush was a newcomer who was tolerated at ABC. Then The Forward sold WEVD to WABC and didn't exist after September 1, 2001. WWOR went benign, and then conservative. WABC replaced Lynn Samuels with Sean Hannity. Yeah, there was WWRL and WLIB for a while, but they were fleeting. (Both stations hosted Air America for as long as it lasted.)

Now, save for FM's WBAI, which is totally listener-sponsored, there are no liberal, progressive radio stations in New York City and its region. NONE!

My point: I could see the future as WEVD left the airways. Control the message by eliminating the stations. And without a platform, Democrats can't get their message out. We can only rely on a few online sources, but how does that get the same message out to Independents? If Democrats can't be presented with MSM News, etc., where are they to go? It has to be disheartening.