The Left Desperately Needs Its Own Version of Rush Limbaugh

[ObsidianDev]

Feels like this is several years late. Rush Limbaugh??

Every single prominent right-wing talking head that we have today took pages out of his playbook and basically owes their entire careers to him. He's the grandfather to the conservative podcast bro lane

 

[CrimsonTider]

That's anti establishment. It's a populist position not necessarilya left wing one

The rich and Wall Street need more regulation and higher taxes is what I’m referring too

 

[Max Power]

That's why my vision of "left wing" is one that emphasizes jobs, free healthcare and the economy while not having that other stuff front and center.

Good plan in theory, but what will happen is that the "other stuff" will demand to be included then it will cause infighting which is what we saw with the "Bernie Bros". Letting the fakkits and weirdos in was a fatal mistake because now they won't leave.

 

[General Mills]

Conservative Talk Radio is a beast

I credit Rush partially for Hillary losing in 16. People really underestimated how hard in the paint Rush went against the Clintons when Bill was in office. He was daily hammering them on the radio. That built up absolute irrational HATRED for anything Clinton

Decades later when Hillary ran that old hatred rose back up. That was all Rush.

 

[ObsidianDev]

hasan is as extreme left as limbaugh was extreme right. does it really matter where they came from?

For a leftist? Yes. Because conservatives have been pushing the notion that most left-leaning people and socialists are just spoiled, privileged people with no real world experience.

Take Hasan: A guy from a wealthy family who's father was a high-ranking government official in Turkey whose parents funded his college education, who then got a job after college working at his millionaire uncle's company before blowing up on Twitch around 2019-2020 and becoming a millionaire himself.

Let him be the Rush Limbaugh of the left?

The jokes against him would write themselves. And his background could easily be used against him to make him appear phony.

 

[UnQuantized]

Thinking about demographics, maybe it would have to be a Latino. Even though Latino men are leaning red, they are quiet in the podcast/manosphere space.

 

[dj-method-x]

You have Bill Maher and Jon Stewart

 

[ObsidianDev]

I think the next gameplan is to swing to the center and tone down the abortion, lgbt, and immigration talk. But if they do that it would show how fake that virtue signaling actually was this whole time.

I think they have push to the left on economic issues and push more to the center on social issues. I personally identify as fiscally progressive and conservative-leaning socially, and I suspect that there's tons of Americans who either feel the same way or who could be influenced to adopt a similar stance.

The only problem is, the Democratic party is held hostage by Wall Street and corporate donors. So any left-wing populist talk gets suppressed

 

[OneManGang]

The left isn’t anti rich though. The message gets muddled when people say things like that. The left is anti abuse loopholes to contributing your fair share as a wealthy person. Saying the left is anti wealth contributes to idiots calling us socialists etc. There are extremists that may well be socialists, but the right has extremists as well on the other side

 

[ViShawn]

You have Bill Maher and Jon Stewart

Stewart is dope. Maher is a racist

 

[Peter Popoff]

There is no more left.

 

[the cac mamba]

There is no more left.

not after tuesday

i've never seen a party in shambles like this. ever

 

[ObsidianDev]

Good plan in theory, but what will happen is that the "other stuff" will demand to be included then it will cause infighting which is what we saw with the "Bernie Bros". Letting the fakkits and weirdos in was a fatal mistake because now they won't leave.

Yeah, it'd be tough. My vision of a left-wing populist party/politician would be one that could win over so many regular working/middle class people aged 25-50 that any bytching and moaning from the college/activist crowd would be a nonfactor.

Not like any of those b*stards actually vote anyway. I STILL remember all the support that they showed for Bernie Sanders online leading up to the 2019 primaries.

Then those exit polls started coming in and proved that they were all talk and no action.

 

[Da_Eggman]

The top ten podcasts like 6 are conservative

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Every single prominent right-wing talking head that we have today took pages out of his playbook and basically owes their entire careers to him. He's the grandfather to the conservative podcast bro lane

He

Rogan and them got the juice. Say they need their version of Rogan or something