Is it imperative to raise more money than the Republicans?

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Certain elements of the Democratic Party, and Liberals generally, have bought into the belief that elections can only be won, and GOP propaganda can only be countered, by engaging in an expensive media war.

Of course, nobody really knows, since for more than a decade we haven't looked at any alternatives.  Move On, and various machines that have been set up to work on behalf of liberals, are constantly asking people on their mailing lists to "Chip in a few dollars" to do thus and so.  It's a media campaign in North Carolina, or a media campaign in California.

One can't help but wonder where all this money actually ends up.  In the hands of the GOP, right?  Because most owners of the media are conservatives.  Unless I'm very much mistaken, the offices and the media owners of even liberal media are actually owned by conservatives.  In any case, media companies are hungry for cash (as are we all, I suppose) and tend to encourage this trend to buy media time and resources to fight propaganda battles electronically.

The public, it appears, is getting less and less intelligent, and more and more gullible, and it seems to take a lot of money to persuade anyone of facts that are self-evident.  Fox news has only to hint that there's something wrong with Barack Obama, such as that he has something absolutely improbable, such as epileptic fits, and the Liberal Media immediately goes into a panic overdrive to persuade everyone that it is not so.

Good government has to be deserved.  If all our neighbors insist on being idiots, insist on getting inferior services, insist that, for instance, dietary information on food products are not needed, that music is not needed in schools, that we don't need clean air, and that we don't need clean water, that we only need a lot of energy at any cost, and that only dirty energy such as gasoline and coal is any use, and that we don't need to protect endangered species like fish, wildlife and whales, then there's little we can do.  It is a theorem that stupidity can only increase!  It's a form of entropy.

But there's actually reason to believe that a lot of people actually do want clean energy, they do want inexpensive health care, they do want safe job, and information at the grocery store, and honest government.  They're just tired of arguing with illogical conservatives!  They're just waiting for Election Day.

Getting people to the polls is most definitely a priority.  Forget the media campaigns.  It is important for people who stand for the things that we stand for to reveal themselves.  It isn't important, in my humble opinion, to raise a lot of money for massive media campaigns.  Let's just say no to fundraising.