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In reply to the discussion: Strafgesetzbuch Section 86a - Important reason why it exists. Time for the US to wake up. [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)The Fox News effect. RW hate radio backlash. Thousands of Americans across vast stretches of the heartland of the U.S. are subjected to hatemongering daily now for over a decade. Some areas of the country there is no more intellectual alternative. The hatemongering airwaves attract those who tended to reject education and general intellectual pursuits in their youth, and prefer the 4th-grade level sound bytes, mostly falsehood, but easier to mentally digest than I.E. in-depth, intellectual journalism presented such as "Democracy Now" and other public broadcast programming. We've witnessed the phenomenon feeding on itself: intentional
"dumbing down" of the U.S. consumer and worker by the right wing, who in turns de-funds public intellectual broadcasting in favor of more hatemongering garbage that earns them votes.
And it is erupting in violence.
Visits to the Midwestern heartland of this country were truly frightening to me in recent years. I had to help care for my aging parents, get my father placed in a nursing home and home care for my later mother as well. While I was there, I saw anti_Obama bumperstickers, billboards and occasionally heard shockingly wild "anti-left-wing" talk being propagated. My father, once a reasonable person, died one hateful old pill addicted to Fox News.
The consumers of this primarily greed-justifying media often take the anti-socialism statements one step beyond what gets broadcast, and the "welfare queen" scenarios first spun by their king Reagan in the 1980's have finally, and violently spawned:
WHISIS.