I tried to explain the "big beautiful bill" to a woman this week, and she stopped me and said, "None of that is true. You listen to the wrong news channel."
"The bacterium that causes fatal syphilis!" Wow. Question: if a nation receives the leaders it deserves, what does that say about the American people and what the future may bring? What if these were times of desperation instead of prosperity? That's what scares the bacterium out of me.
Politics is perception. People vote for Trump and believe what they believe because they live in a media universe based on fear that indulges their worst and often most base instincts. That media universe is the product of decades of the worst of the ultra-rich reacting to various liberation movements (Black, Women's, Queer etc) and attempts to even the playing field that began with the New Deal.
It was not a conspiracy, it began with right-wing think-tanks (Coors money and others) post the Goldwater debacle in 1964, got a big boost with end of the Fairness Doctrine (remember Roger Ailes?), right-wingers buying up radio stations, the Murdochs, non-curated or Nazi curated news on the web, etcetera.
The upshot is billionaires have managed to create a media universe that not as totalitarian as the one in "1984," but in terms of taking over the richest (for now) and most power country in the world, it's been pretty damn effective. It happened slowly and we tend to note its affect less, not a lot of headlines on silo consumption, but it's at the root.
I tried to explain the "big beautiful bill" to a woman this week, and she stopped me and said, "None of that is true. You listen to the wrong news channel."
Some people live in an alternative reality.
Oh, reality will catch up with them, all right
"The bacterium that causes fatal syphilis!" Wow. Question: if a nation receives the leaders it deserves, what does that say about the American people and what the future may bring? What if these were times of desperation instead of prosperity? That's what scares the bacterium out of me.
Politics is perception. People vote for Trump and believe what they believe because they live in a media universe based on fear that indulges their worst and often most base instincts. That media universe is the product of decades of the worst of the ultra-rich reacting to various liberation movements (Black, Women's, Queer etc) and attempts to even the playing field that began with the New Deal.
It was not a conspiracy, it began with right-wing think-tanks (Coors money and others) post the Goldwater debacle in 1964, got a big boost with end of the Fairness Doctrine (remember Roger Ailes?), right-wingers buying up radio stations, the Murdochs, non-curated or Nazi curated news on the web, etcetera.
The upshot is billionaires have managed to create a media universe that not as totalitarian as the one in "1984," but in terms of taking over the richest (for now) and most power country in the world, it's been pretty damn effective. It happened slowly and we tend to note its affect less, not a lot of headlines on silo consumption, but it's at the root.
right you are