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Cosmocat

(14,563 posts)
9. It is trickle down
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 08:36 AM
Nov 2022

The right wing bullies the media, the media adapts their line of thinking to placate them, and the idiot masses parrot what the media says.

20 years ago, when Bush was lying the country into Iraq, Chris fucking Mathews, a supposed dem stalwart, was on his show flat out saying, "Rs are the party for national security, just the way it is ..."

It has been like watching a slow moving train wreck since my young adult years in the 90s. I just don't get why you, me, and about 1/3 of the country doesn't fall for this shit, but 2/3 of the country eagerly does, to some degree or another.

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