(November 4, 2024 at 12:20 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 3, 2024 at 10:17 pm)Brian37 Wrote: you can start with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News about 20 years ago when they gutted the network of any
I agree, this was the start of the horrible polarizing we see today.
The trouble is that Murdoch had discovered an excellent business model. You make more money by feeding the hate and fear of your viewers than by offering anything like balance. So then MSNBC and, to a lesser extent, CNN and other stations adopted the same business model, but aimed at a different demographic. And neither side feels any duty to tell the truth at all.
So now we're at the point where reality appears different depending on what media you watch. Pro-Harris people can't even imagine how a sane person could support Trump, because their media invariably say there is no reason -- other than racism or misogyny. The idea that sane thinking people could respectfully disagree is no longer possible.
Obviously racists and misogynists don't make whole of trump electorate. There are also fascists, religious nuts, conspiracy theorists, far righters who aren't fascists yet...
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
