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highplainsdem

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5. Lofgren seems ignorant of rightwing media and rightwing think tanks and rightwing organizations
Mon Apr 20, 2026, 11:51 AM
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like ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Much of that funded by RW billionaires who wanted to reduce their own taxes and destroy the social safery net created by liberals.

Popular culture is not the threat, and in fact popular music has always helped movements for social justice.

Snobbery by the elites will turn people against them, but that's been true throughout history.

The decline in classical music sales compared to popular music is mostly because it does not have large numbers of new composers creating new classical music. Classical music fans, once they have recordings of favorite symphonies by the great classical composers, are not going to be buying new recordings of classical music very often. Not unless audio technology improves, anyway, when they might replace all or most of their collection with the latest type of recording.

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