The truth is under serious assault in our society on a scale that would horrify you if you paid any attention at all to the facts on the ground. I am not being hyperbolic even though I am sure that even some of my readers will respond with “yeah, yeah, both sides stretch the truth to advance their ideology”.
Fox regularly sells hate and vitriol to its viewers, day after day until surprise we find out that not only are Fox viewers amongst the worst informed when it comes to actual facts… but amazingly they believe, really believe all kinds of absolute crap that the Fox and friends have fed them for advancement of… News Corp, a company run by a man that only became a US citizen to satisfy regulatory requirements that stopped him as a non-citizen from owning even more media in the United States.
I would not have anything to object to if a foreign interest created a network that yielded the best informed viewers in the United States but what kind of a citizen would I be not to point out the obvious danger with the reality that Fox has wrought?
You reap what you sow… And what exactly do we expect Fox and their ilk to reap? An angry, ill informed mob of undereducated white people that desperately cling to the concept that president Obama is foreign because the concept that a man of color however well qualified or educated could honestly hold the office of president offends their very sense of being.
What happens when these same people find out that they are only cannon fodder for the moneyed interests that would use their prejudices and fears to gain political advantage, to transfer even more wealth to the obscenely wealthy to strip away the last vestiges of power from those who barely have any to wield. Will they strike back? Will their anger be brought to bear on those who have manipulated them? Will they stand with the opposition or simply stop voting out of disgust and disappointment.
In either case Fox and the GOP are facing a day of reckoning. Every time the president gets up in public and tears down the opposition like so many con artists the day gets closer. Every time there is another poll that proves how desperately misguided the radical right tea party crowd has gotten the day gets closer. Every time someone with facts, stands up and presents those facts in the face of lies and distortion the day gets closer.
We need to do everything in our power to bring that day, the sooner the better.
The truth will set you free, but you have to free it first…
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