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I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:15 AM Jun 2020

Alternate reality

Remember when
Bush ,Chaney, Rumsfelt all
Told us they
wanted to create a alternative reality,to facilitate full spectrum dominance?

They systematically drove 1/3 of the American people into a cultic insanity and encouraged sociopathic behaviors and beliefs on purpose.

Through faux news, conspirasy theories,AM radio,excusing Hate, racisim,sexism, Gblt phobia, religion,murder, state violence.
Increasingly grusome and rampant violence on TV, to desensitize people.
They did this on purpose.

All thier dark money and mind games and
the gaslighting,financial abuse,atomizing communities, poisoning earth and destroying it. Taking away humanities mind space,ending privacy, stacking courts with assholes, It goes on and on this crime against life.

The republicans through each republican president has worked on this goal. They wanted total control and domination over not only America,but the world.



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Alternate reality (Original Post) I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2020 OP
From today's excellent Heather Cox Richardson missive soothsayer Jun 2020 #1
Checking out her site now. CrispyQ Jun 2020 #4
She offers a very sane, very measured voice soothsayer Jun 2020 #5
I DO remember pdxflyboy Jun 2020 #2
It's proof republicans I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2020 #3

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
1. From today's excellent Heather Cox Richardson missive
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:19 AM
Jun 2020

Snip:

For more than a century, American media has tried to report facts impartially. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Federal Communications Commission enshrined this principle in the Fairness Doctrine, which established that public media must base its news in facts and must present both sides of an argument fairly, honestly, and equitably. Beginning in the 1950s, Republicans who were ideologically opposed to the New Deal state complained that this principle, embraced by the “liberal media,” discriminated against them. In 1987, after President Ronald Reagan had placed new members on the board of the FCC, it abandoned the Fairness Doctrine.

With that abandonment, talk radio took off, presenting an ideological narrative that showed white taxpayers under siege by godless women and people of color. The Fox News Channel was not far behind, calling itself “fair and balanced” until 2017, when it dropped the slogan, because it presented the ideological narrative that mainstream media rejected. Other media outlets tried to defend themselves against charges that they were biased against that narrative, so they opened up their pages and television shows to that ideological story. Increasingly, the extreme Republican narrative spread into the mainstream on the grounds that the media must show “both sides.”

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
5. She offers a very sane, very measured voice
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 10:37 AM
Jun 2020

With citations. Worth reading all her old stuff once you get there.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
3. It's proof republicans
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 10:04 AM
Jun 2020

All of them are complicit in creating the mess magats have been causing,like families ripped apart,republican churches going political,2nd amendment nuts,all of the shit caused by radical right wing craziness. This was planned and deliberate,to enable fascism.

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