but I don't remember KPCC doing endless, breathless jabber-fests on the future of the Democratic Party back in 2001. Right now Larry Mantle has his BFFs - the leadership of the California Republican Party - on his show, and they're yammering away on the subject as if their public radio audience gives a shit what happens to the GOP. (Maybe we'd care if someone could assure us that the party was going to start recruiting grown-ups again, but I don't see that happening.)
Just sayin'.
Update: Now they've moved onto a breathless analysis of Ronald Reagan's greatness in single-handedly bringing down the Soviet Union. Yeah. Because you gotta play to all those conservative public radio listeners.
Update 2: Ha! There they are! My kind of listeners, calling in to say that Reagan's speech was not the deciding factor that all those googly-eyed Gipper geeks want to believe it was. And while we're on the subject, how childish and ego-centric do you have to be to believe that any American president could persuade all those Soviets to come around to the American way of thinking? That's about as likely as the American people being so enchanted by Gorbachev that they decide to add a hammer and sickle to the one dollar coin.
Update 3: You know what killed the Soviet Union? Bureaucracy. It became so moribund with bureaucracy that it collapsed under its own weight.
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