Well, again, I'm sure some of the social justice stuff gets in the way. More so is the fact that the propaganda arm of the republican party won't put them on (other than to vilify) so their messaging is muted somewhat.
Bernie was on Fox for a town hall and many of the people in the audience (and who watched) identified with his positions. I believe That was the last time they had him on. I believe Elizabeth Warren likely has the best policies of any candidate out there, but the "Pocahontas" jab and the fact I may be one of 4 people who read her plans (and the fact she is a woman) are a non starter.....
So a large share of your argument is that the leftist "messaging is muted"
You mean when it's basically Fox against CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Washington Post, NYT, NBC, CBS, Vox, Slate, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post and on and on and on. Including basically all of Hollywood, all of Late Night TV, and even ESPN and most of the sports world. Never mind it also controls of most of Big Social Media. Which is supported by nearly full control of Big Tech, Big Education, most of Big Finance whil backed by big money like Soros and Bloomberg.
It doesn't even extend out just out there, in here in the PSF, we have only two Staff members who post here on a regular basis. One attempts to start posts and thread topics to balance out the general discussion, in thanks, the radical leftists here barrage him, sealion him and gaslight him about his thread titles and every little thing he says with the only intent to silence him. The other Staff member wears his bias brightly on his sleeve and started a thread to point out which "sources" from the "right wing" are unacceptable. How that's used is it's codified in the PSF that it's OK for the same radical leftist to just call the Conservatives and Republicans here liars if they use those sources, just a blank check to try to incite them to get them react so they can be banned. Then the same Staff member didn't like the Durham/Clinton story in the NYT or WSJ and said that doesn't count as a "good source", because the editorial section is so much different than the rest. Do you know how intellectually dishonest that is to do? Do you know how tyrannical that approach becomes to the Conservatives here? It's cool to call all of you liars because it fits my tribalism without any kind of introspection or context, but when a story pops up I don't like with a source that I've said is legitimate, now "context" matters to denounce it because it makes my "Partisan Team" look bad.
I had a Conservative who never posts in the PSF send me a DM that said - "I wish we have a Staff member who took a french class with Donald Trump Jr in the PSF so we don't have to tiptoe around while waiting to get banned for being Republicans"
Think about what that says, not just from a community standpoint, but a business standpoint. Think about how far off the rails someone has to go to actually create negative brand image for the entire FBG brand for their own personal tribalism. Even here many of you radical leftists have a clear advantage. Republicans here realize they have no margin of error if they lose the coin flip and the dispute goes to the hard left Staff member. It's not like the Conservatives and Republicans here don't talk amongst ourselves in private. Maybe its just time for all of us to pick up and leave. Maybe it's time for all Conservative and Republican subscribers to cash out and go to competitor instead.
A lot of you radical leftists are just too greedy. Your side literally controls nearly all of the activist complicit MSM and you still are upset that Fox is the only holdout to show the other side of the political spectrum. And guess what? The ratings for the majority of the MSM are tanking, except Fox. Part of that is because there's only real major source for Conservative viewpoints and news. But another part is people are unhappy and they don't want to be asked to swallow "state media" from the DNC that's being shoveled from places like CNN and MSNBC that tell them things aren't so bad when the entire country is a disaster zone.
This is why there were so many purity tests over Fox not carrying the J6 Hearings. The establishment Democrats knew more Americans by ratings were watching Fox over the gaggle of stragglers like CNN and MSNBC. But the question doesn't get raised why left leaning viewers are ditching those networks and literally everything on it, all except basically Rachel Maddow.
Just greedy. I'm waiting for a radical leftist to just come out and be honest about it and say they plain want Conservatives and Republicans fully silenced just because they said so. At least it would be honest. Then it wouldn't be these cheap purity tests, gas lighting, source policing, "unapproved" lists, sea lioning and the rest.
I'm OK with free speech. And that doesn't mean the exclusion of speech that offends some people's dogmatic zealot like view of how the world should be. The world I want to live in includes people who disagree with me. And if they disagree, I know I can always handle my own against anyone, anywhere and at anytime. I agree with Mark Cuban.
"I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet — I want to know who the morons are." - Mark Cuban, 2014