THIS !!!

[love_katz]

52. Plus a gazillion.

Heritage Foundation began plotting their take-over of our country back in the beginning of the 1970's. They really ramped up their efforts to get a monopoly on mainstream media by 1980, after Ronnie Raygun ( deliberately misspelled) was elected.
I realized what was going on after his reelection in 1984. I was so angry that I barely restrained myself from kicking in the television screen. I went looking for an explanation of why this had happened. Someone recommended a book by a guy named Jerry Mander: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. I had found mainstream media irritating for years, going back to the Sixties, but that book was a huge eye opener. I quit watching television and have never regretted it.
I realize that the Democratic party has their problems, but too many people don't realize that a big piece of our trouble is that we don't have a gigantic megaphone to blast our views into the public sphere. No wealthy people have stepped up to buy us our own media so we can extend our reach and have even a tiny chance to counter the fire hose of Reich wing lies and propaganda.
The internet should have made things better, but the lack of regulation has made it a tool of loudmouth disinformation and, sadly, too many people don't seem to have the reading and critical thinking skills to be able to reject the crap that is spewed by hateful bigots and imbeciles. Combined with the disgusting beliefs spewed by the evangelical churches, the result is that too many people are so badly misinformed that they can't be reached. At this late date in history, it appears that the only way for this to change is through FAFO. The worst of the Cult is a lost cause, but maybe the disaffected who didn't bother to vote will finally begin to get the fact that they need to participate, whether they want to or not.