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In reply to the discussion: Bored so I've been cooking and listening to Fox news...wow the level of brainwashing and [View all]maindawg
(1,151 posts)Who runs around claiming that the sky was falling. Then I learned about the boy who cried wolf. Thus ,at the age of 3, I was prepared for the eventual assault by the fascist rethuglacan party. I watched the nation turn to Ronald Reagon with utter disappointment knowing that he was just the reincarnation of the same disease that swept Europe down the drain some 50 years prior.
I watched the nation I had hoped was awakening after such an ugly Nixonian period slink into a selfish hateful state. But as time went on, I saw that it was always inevitable and would sink far more into the dark morass of instant gratification. While my chain smoking father condemned me to the streets in his sincere belief that pot was a dangerous narcotic and I was a deranged addict, people in those days drove drunk as a habit. The entainment industry worked feverishly to put out the flames of creativity to drive artists from art so that they could mold the business model we have today that is fox news.