I wonder which obscure event future historians will pick as the beginning of the US’s end. I don’t mean the obvious takes, but those historian deep cuts, like “no one realized at the time, but the cinnamon challenge marked the beginning of the final decline.”
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Was the day it all began to collapse.
Survivor E1.
A fake reality show that rewarded tribalism and promoted an us against them mentality.
Started the “reality” show craze culminating in the election of a fake reality tv celebrity as President in 2016.
Tell me I’m wrong.
Trump teaching everyone about the Revolutionary War airports is kind of peak though.
Reagan’s change to the taxation system.
It constitutionally could not apply to cable.
Such a sinister doublespeak name for it, too.
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy for station owners - not the “talent”.
What future historians are more likely to look back on is when we started devaluing education in the 60s and liberal arts degrees were mocked as underwater basket weaving.
RL was on the air tripling ratings in Sacramento with his bullshit while the FD was in effect. Never prevented his content at all.
It never prevented any propaganda. It often fostered it.
It also didn’t have shit to do with cable channels.
You’ve been misinformed.
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That is when the olOrange Shitgibbon started plotting revenge.
It was when the Republicans were allowed to steal the 2000 election.