Make no mistake this all started with Newt Gingrich, Rupert Murdoch and Fox news. We've had people watching alternative reality programming for 25 years . Their brains are now rotten.
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I think they meant not *at* this volume. It did start more than 25 years ago. The conservative underbelly of the US has always pushed back against being better humans in every way & demonized it.
This current level of malevolence & cognitive dissonance is a culmination of lifetimes of lies & hate.
I consider Pat Buchanan's 1992 GOP speech as the fuel that fed Gingrich and the start of the hyperpartisan total war against Democrats. The authoritarian turn. It was quite controversial at the time.
I believe it started with Rush Limbaugh syndicated nationally to hundreds of radio stations creating a fertile environment for the TV poison that followed courtesy of Reagan killing the fairness doctrine twice.
This started with Nixon's pardon! He should have been criminally charged! The same with Reagan and Iran/Contra!
Those 2 cases showed the weakness of the Dems!
Remember, fox was created to give the republicans the news media they think the Dems have! Now, intentional misinformation is the standard!
Impeach. Convict. REMOVE. And find a rich person who can pay for 50 MILLION posters that say that and people to coordinate distribution in all 50 states plus DC so we hold them on on 6/14 while he has his stupid fascist parade. Thank you.
"The first “Mandate for Leadership” (Later titled Project 2025) was released in January 1981, containing policy proposals of reform that would make government more efficient and effective. President Ronald Reagan distributed Heritage’s book at his first Cabinet meeting."
Also poorly funded public education which doesn’t focus on critical thinking & most of these people are already indoctrinated by christianity to blindly obey their leader.
Now, it is all blatantly a cover for racism and misogyny and white males losing power.
What was the underlying cultural feeling that gave Newt a voice?
Gotta agree since I remember Newtie’s “Contract with America”, the rise of evangelical nationalism via Jerry Falwell, and the transition of Fox News from a ‘meh’ network to a lying, grandstanding ratings chaser devoid of integrity and facts.
True- it's created an Orwellian wilderness in which anti-science, anger, resentment, and selfishness are all legitimated and rewarded.
One hopes Trump's Gilded Age of Greed and Idiocy will somehow be vanquished by a Second Age of Enlightenment.
Reagan was the one who forced the FTC to change the way their enforcement worked and ease requirements to allow Murdoch to come here in the first place. This has been going on since more like '85.
40 years of Republican special interest propaganda and an assault on education to breed idiot sheep.
It’s odd that Murdoch comes out against Trump in the WSJ yet fawns over him on Fox. He owns both. Obviously he knows the money people are more realistic v Fox viewers who are easily manipulated.
They're targeting 1950 and prior, not 2000. In any case, their expressed targets are meaningless because the actual goal is state destruction of the USA. See ANY of RFKJ's proclamations to understand that the resulting deaths are meant to erode the state, not restore chronology. Though FOX is trash.
Their have been loyalists to Germany, Russia, Nazi's, KKK, white supremacists, Heritage and Federalists, Originalist, and many more opposition parties to this democracy since before it was officially adopted, they just lost most of the guardrails that inhibited their coup, in the first term!
Yes, but importantly the Dems did NOTHING to stop any of it. And THAT is how RWing fascists will take root: no one in govt doing a thing to stop it! No one upheld rule of law from either party. And the income inequality as well started w Reagan. It's perfect recipe for corruption and fascism
You're exactly right and we should stay focused on the culpability of corporate Dems. What Democrats allowed Reagan Republicans to bend, emboldened the next Republican president to break.
yes...i agree...it's so important to see the full picture objectively and not see it from a POV of party bias, which is what most of americans do be they Dems or GOP. That biased POV doesn't provide any proper solutions to our problems, just adds to the gaslighting.
Here's the full picture . I went to my second townhall on Saturday in a month. Hakeem was there. They answered 9 questions and walked off stage. They were just checking a box. There were 600 petrified people there ,they had zero solutions . We are doomed with these people.
This cannot be stressed enough. Fox has created a nation of rot, a nation of cultists. Fox, and all other media outlets like it need to be removed from the US. We have to find a way to get rid of all of them. If we don't, we will continue to have people who believe in propaganda and crazy ideas.
ya know in Australia, the home of Murdoch, we have the same stranglehold on our media. But we just told them to fk right off. You can do the same. Muscle up, take your country back.
This is true. I watched the effect of decades of FoxNews propaganda on my relations. My father went from scolding my mother not to believe everything she read on Drudge to drinking the MAGA KoolAid. https://bsky.app/profile/my2bits4u.bsky.social/post/3loe73fnfd225
Oh trust me, I'm with ya on that one. The few I have to be in contact with, I avoid as much contact as possible. Most of 'em I haven't talked to in five or ten years or more. If I won the lottery, I'd move away and never be heard from again.
Yes, but don't absolve the role of social media. Particularly Facebook. Fox and AM radio were bad, but the misinformation was siloed. Social media let them mainline the ideological poison.
It started long before that. The Nazis posing as Christians have been working since the 60s to seize the government but Gingrich and Rupert played a big part turning Americans against their country.
That is exactly right. The Culture of Stupidity. Americans hate people whom they think are smarter than them. That's why they love Trump. He's not smarter than anybody.
Don’t overlook the success that Reagan had with his entirely fictitious “welfare queen”. He swore she was real and conservatives swallowed it hook, line and sinker. That was the moment that the GOP realized that facts didn’t matter.
If you look at the Australian election results you can see Murdoch’s influence is almost dead here. No one reads his papers or watches his news channel. It’s glorious to see
There have always been populist demagogues in U.S. culture and politics. Henry Ford was rabidly anti-semitic and used his fortune to spread it. Father Coughlin was on hundreds of radio stations in the 30's basically parroting Hitler's words and sentiments.
Agreed. This was a long term investment that started to pay off when they found the person that could lead brainwashed people to vote him into power, and give them the ROI predicted.
Much older than 25 years ago. Reagan, William F. Buckley and Rush Limbaugh were huge influences on modern conservatism. And lesser-known powerful conservative groups like the secretive Council for National Policy has been at it 45+years.
As an early listener (def not a follower), I believe it started with Rush. It absolutely was compounded in the worst way by Fox News. But hey, pick your poison…
When Rupert (94) croaks Lachlan can’t take over the Fux Lie Empire -they lost the trust case.
James (Harris supporter), Prudence (concerned about climate) & Elisabeth Murdoch can dismantle the entire cesspool.
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This current level of malevolence & cognitive dissonance is a culmination of lifetimes of lies & hate.
https://bsky.app/profile/ogredragon.bsky.social/post/3llrrpbimek2i
NixonTV was dreamed up in 1970, 55 years ago.
https://bsky.app/profile/pluribus-unum.co/post/3lkiwogoaks2l
Those 2 cases showed the weakness of the Dems!
Remember, fox was created to give the republicans the news media they think the Dems have! Now, intentional misinformation is the standard!
"The first “Mandate for Leadership” (Later titled Project 2025) was released in January 1981, containing policy proposals of reform that would make government more efficient and effective. President Ronald Reagan distributed Heritage’s book at his first Cabinet meeting."
#impeachtrump
What was the underlying cultural feeling that gave Newt a voice?
One hopes Trump's Gilded Age of Greed and Idiocy will somehow be vanquished by a Second Age of Enlightenment.
40 years of Republican special interest propaganda and an assault on education to breed idiot sheep.
30 years of his poison on the radio.
Thanks
These people had issues way before Fox News came along.
Ronald Reagan paved the way by appointing those he knew would end the fairness doctrine.
And then came fox nooz.
There have always been populist demagogues in U.S. culture and politics. Henry Ford was rabidly anti-semitic and used his fortune to spread it. Father Coughlin was on hundreds of radio stations in the 30's basically parroting Hitler's words and sentiments.
A thread on Christian Nationalism…
https://bsky.app/profile/arbiteriapetus.bsky.social/post/3lid3wbbx322e
James (Harris supporter), Prudence (concerned about climate) & Elisabeth Murdoch can dismantle the entire cesspool.
Why is no one saying that?
This started when I was a child.
Gingrich and Murdoch et al have provide the intermediary fuel for the flames of fascism.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
Everyone should be watching Bogeyman the Lee Atwater story to understand the poison he brought into our body politics
All the crimes depicted are now standard Republican practices.
It had nothing to do with Gingrich, Murdoch, or Fox News.
Both investigations also included
Mr Bill Barr as US Attorney General.
Doing the cover/ clean up
Their former hero.
Ronald Reagan,
Is #1.