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Patty's avatar

Is it too much to hope that Satan drops by to reclaim his own in the near future? That sounds like what it's going to take to rid America and the world of this hideous scourge. America - where we lost a woman of deep lifelong humanitarian service over the weekend, and this thing is free to spew his feverish mental orgy of murder, revenge and the destruction of our nation, unimpeded by either the courts or the media. How we have fallen.

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I think everything comes back to Fox News. For decades they've been demonizing and dehumanizing Democrats, liberals, anyone they consider "other" to have an enemy to constantly attack and make their viewers more ignorant and paranoid. Also so they feel justified in saying and doing anything against us, including violence. They are worse than just a propaganda arm of the Republican party. They have turned their viewers into people like those in Germany who supported Hitler's rise to power. And the Republican party has given up on democracy because they know it will not allow them to stay in power, so they have embraced Trump and authoritarianism. To me it's because of decades of lies and disinformation and rhetoric from Fox News that Trump, the absolute worst president in history and someone who epitomizes all 7 deadly sins at once, is the frontrunner to become the next president.

But what can be done about it? Until Fox News is somehow taken down, I don't see this country ever healing from this. The Dominion lawsuit was a great start and hopefully the Smartmatic lawsuit will do them even more damage. Maybe other groups and individuals who have been maligned by Fox News can also file suit, chipping away at them until they go broke. Perhaps we need Democratic think tanks to organize this, plus to counter the right-wing think tanks that have planned for decades to weaken our rights and democracy itself. Sadly I think until Fox News is somehow stopped or greatly diminished, their viewers and the Republican party will continue their slide into fascism. And with Trump's recent rhetoric (with zero condemnation from Repubs for it), things will continue to get worse. If we don't get out the vote next November, this democracy will be lost and so will our rights.

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