Trump vs Tradtional Politics
Hi! Happy Sunday! Mmmm, yesterday I posited that the Trump Phenomena is a culmination of the disastrous deregulation of that started in 1980s and has continued unabated ever since. Trump is a direct result of news as profit, click bait. If we want to prevent future Trumps from making it to the national political stage I proposed a solution based on tradition; repeal media de-regulation and reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, etc. such that news is no longer a for profit endeavor. I defended this proposal by stating that in lieu of "sciencing the shit out of it" then falling back on tradition that works is viable. Go back to where we were. Could that work? Ha! First of all, the conservative media is full-on denial that they represent hate speech. The minute conservative media is called out for hating Obama, hating liberals and calling their fellow liberal Americans traitors then conservative apologists hide behind the first amendment. So no, it will not work. The reason