Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?
Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.
For the third straight time, a Democratic president handed a Republican president an economy that was at the least pretty good, and at most (Bill Clinton) really humming along very nicely. And, for the third straight time, the Republican has made things worse. Which also means that Democratic presidents have to clean up messes left by their GOP predecessors.
In the presence of continued propaganda from the GQP and the duplicity of the Fourth Estate supporting and distributing that propaganda I don’t think it will ever sink in.
Oligarch owned mainstream news providers have become Republican disinformation tools - slightly veiled versions of Fox News held to no standard at all. Facts have little chance against widespread lies repeated constantly almost everywhere.
Hell, even before Faux came along, the mainstream media was and is embarrassingly skewed to the right.
But that was not enough for the Bircher types. They resented that something like Watergate was allowed to bring down their Nixon. They needed outlets that were ridiculously, cartoonishly even, right wing. And they had the balls to call them “fair and balanced”.
The funniest thing is when you see some Bircher bitching about how Faux is “woke” or something unhinged like that.
I mean, Network skewered the corporate capture of news quite well, and that was 50 years ago.
The liberal media helped fascism grow in the 1920s and 1930s in America. They also did the same the second time in the mid 2010s to now.
edit: seems quite a few don’t like to acknowledge reality
And by liberal media, I’m assuming you are talking about the corporate media that the conservatives all call “liberal media”.
I certainly don’t mean leftist media, but the prevailing liberal media conglomerate is what I’m referring to. So yeah I guess.
Explain how liberal media supports fascism
The entire system, which is propped up by the media, supports fascism. Media is nothing more than the propaganda arm of oligarchy.
bingo
These guys can do it way better than I ever could, and way more in depth (it’s a 2 parter).
edit: I’ll add that this is the “Behind The Bastards” podcast so anyone else can find this in the future
There have been less than 48 DNC senators for over 13 years now, the majority of the 2010s to now, so I’m interpreting this as you somehow thinking the GOP are liberals…?
What do you think “media” means? Does it mean Congress?
Ooooh, okay, I get it, you’re saying the liberal media somehow enabled fascism while not being fascists themselves?
Take a look at the Behind the Bastards link I shared in another comment in this chain. You too can learn all about it.
Nah you don’t have enough credit in my book for me to click your links. I accept your resignation, sucks to suck.
I mean it’s a youtube podcast, but you do you I guess. Enjoy your bubble
Linking people to videos between 20 minutes and several hours and then complaining that they didn’t understand whatever point they have no idea you were trying to make is pure idiocy.
Why don’t you just hand us a reading list and then ask us to decode some vague statement for you, while you’re at it? It works so well for those fuckin tankies.