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CBS-CNN coming 'marriage' echoes authoritarian media takeovers in Putin's Russia in the 2000s and OrbΓ‘n's Hungary during the 2010s. {The Bulwark 17 June}
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cbs-get-ready-for-the-bari-fication-weiss-of-cnn
The #MAGA movement commands roughly a third of the overall population scattered across wide swaths of the country. Its influence extends far beyond electoral politics: they own the churches; law enforcement and the military are infested with them; and most gun owners are in their camp. Rural America remains hopelessly in love with Donald Trump, even as his policies are resulting in economic genocide upon them. There is a reason why the stereotype of the ‘hick’ from the country hath endured for so long, and that is precisely because those who embody that stereotype are, quite literally, holding the world hostage in order that their ‘freedumb’ and their anti-intellectualism never be challenged.
Combined with a compliant media and influential figures such as Bari Weiss, this is more than sufficient to bring a nation to its knees. At least another third of Americans — the mostly apathetic ones in the middle — will fall to their knees and submit. That is always the way when ideological madmen forcefully take over a nation, as the common people value stability and their lives more than their political rights. History repeatedly demonstrates that uncomfortable truth.
And as for those of us in the remaining thirty-ish per cent — if we even are that large in number — we are being cast to the wind, left behind and forgotten for all time. We lost. Liberalism in the former US is toast, and America today is the sort of nation that would have been fighting alongside Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan in World War II.
In other words, I cannot find the words to contemplate what exactly our lives are going to look like, if we live to see it, once the transition to all-out theocratic fascism in the former United States of America hath been completed, and we are almost at that juncture. Media consolidation is the final nail in the coffin.
