“An excellent idea that hadn’t occurred to me. Perhaps more difficult than a simple hostile takeover because many of the media firms are owned by even larger corporations (ABC/Disney, NBC/Comcast)”

It is but you also don’t have to start with [expensive] TV. Talk radio is covered but how about a non leftist npr? Or even music stations with smart non leftist djs. All this is important…

Same for newspapers… if they were not so biased left would the market be better for them?

“The MSM’s Achilles heel is the susceptibility of its publicly held, parent companies to hostile (conservative) takeover, by wealthy conservative individuals and foundations who can easily purchase a controlling interest in those parent companies…”

An excellent idea that hadn’t occurred to me. Perhaps more difficult than a simple hostile takeover because many of the media firms are owned by even larger corporations (ABC/Disney, NBC/Comcast) but not an obstacle that would stop a group of determined, creative and enterprising conservative billionaires.

They are both right but their respective strategies to control us and the areas that they want to control us in, differ of course.

In its lust for power, the tactical ‘end run’ around the Constitution that the left has used to subvert the Constitution is perhaps threefold; the MSM acting as the left’s purveyor of propaganda, the growth and ever widening entitlement state, dependent upon ever larger deficit spending and judicial activism.

Of the three, judicial activism is both the hardest to address in the short term and the easiest to neutralize in the long term.

The MSM’s Achilles heel is the susceptibility of its publicly held, parent companies to hostile (conservative) takeover, by wealthy conservative individuals and foundations who can easily purchase a controlling interest in those parent companies…

The only way to reign in the growth and expansion of entitlements is through a really tough balanced budget amendment. Such an amendment would force reductions in spending, eliminating the growth in deficits and would both curtail the growth of entitlements and in time, reduce the dependent class.

Take away the ability of the left to use the financial leverage that deficit spending provides and a mortal blow is struck against the left. Eliminate its propaganda organ the MSM and the public will start to awaken. Both those circumstances will eventuate in less liberal judges being appointed and a concurrent reduction in judicial activism.

Neither of these proposed strategies will be easily accomplished and both will take time to achieve.

There is however no other option available. To use a military metaphor; as at Normandy Beach, the ‘pillboxes’ of deficit spending, (which permits the deepening and expansion of entitlements) and the pervasiveness of the MSM…must be taken, no matter what the cost.