Saturday, October 16, 2010

PROGRESSIVES: ON THE NEW FASCISM...or THE NEW "KNOW NOTHINGS"....

THE NOTION THAT REASON, FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY WILL EVER TRUMP HATE, FEAR AND GREED IN A FAIR MEDIA FIGHT IS NONSENSE...

AND LIBERALS WHO THINK THEY CAN COMPETE WITH FOX NEWS FOR THE SIMPLE MINDS OF AMERICANS ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH POLITICAL REALITY...

THE "HIGHER FUNCTIONS" OF THE BRAIN WHERE ALWAYS OUT OF REACH FOR MOST AMERICANS...AND THE ONLY REASON THAT THE PROGRESSIVE IDEAL HAD A CHANCE IN AMERICAN WAS BACK IN THE DAYS OF THREE BROADCAST NETWORKS...MOSTLY FROM NEW YORK..WHO HELD SWAY ON THE "OPINION" MACHINE FOR SO LONG...

BACK IN THE 19TH CENTURY WHEN THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS...AND FEW NATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES....THE SAME JINGOISM, RACISM AND BULLSHIT PREVAILED...

FOX IS REALLY A RETURN TO NORMALCY TO THE OPINION DYNAMIC...OF THE SEMI-LITERATE AMERICA OF THE 1800'S...

FOX PLAYS TO THE STUPID AND THEIR FEARS AND HATES..

IT PLAYS TO THE LESS INFORMED...THE LESS KNOWLEDGABLE...

AMERICANS HAVE HAD "KNOW NOTHING" PARTIES BEFORE...AND THE TEABAGGERS ARE JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS ANTI-INTELLECTUAL STRAIN OF AMERICAN SOCIETY...