RIGHT WING MEDIA IS THE PROBLEM
Most right wingers, even in this economy, are employed. A lot of them aren’t that crazy about what they do for a living, they feel underpaid and overworked. If they own a business, they wish they were more successful so they could worry less and have more. They paid too much to send their kids to college, and they graduate without prospects. They can’t have everything they want, maybe they can’t afford the good steak or the good beer unless it’s a special occasion.
In general, they feel they give more than get. They feel undervalued and under appreciated.
The problem is, that’s human grievance, not white grievance. These are emotions that are common to 99.9% to the people on this planet. Everyone feels this way. Telephone psychics have been exploiting this for ages.
So has right-wing media.
It’s not your bosses fault you are underpaid, the laws and regulations pushed by the Democrats and “the elites” make it impossible to grow a business. Your boss is a bigger victim than you. He’d pay you more if he could, don’t blame him. And don’t blame the pharmaceutical companies for the drug problem in your communities, blame the liberals and their degraded morals.
And your prospects have been strangled by immigrants pouring across the Southern border. It doesn’t matter that you’ve never lost a job to an immigrant, illegal or otherwise, or that you don’t know anyone that has. But you know a lot of hard working Americans have lost their jobs to immigrants because Fox News says so. Just like a lot of them have been brutally murdered by these violent criminals breaching our borders. This must be a real problem, because Fox has a segment every night featuring the gory details of the latest illegal immigrant crimes.
Welfare queens are buying the steak and lobster you can’t afford with your tax dollars and Fox News found both of them and did a feature on them. The reason your kid can’t get into a good college is because less deserving minorities took his spot. It’s too expensive because your kid is subsidizing some black kids education.
And right wing media keeps doubling down on the victimhood narrative, and doubling down again until we are where we are now. Even though you’ve never seen a violent leftist mob, except on Fox, and don’t know anyone that has, they’re coming to burn down your house. You only lost this election because the Democrats, the enemy of you, the reason for your angst and insecurity, the devil behind the world that doesn’t appreciate you, cheated.
Right wing media IS the problem It’s a drug, and a good portion of the population is addicted. They got sucked in slowly, at first it was news that was slanted, just a little bit, in order to make these people feel better about their lives. Then the drug got stronger and stronger, until now there’s stuff out their that’s nastier than fentanyl.
Look at people like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. They may have been conservative assholes all along, but they were quite mentally competent - they were both federal prosecutors. Now they are insane. Literally insane, babbling and drooling about George Soros and commie plots and a massive organized international election fraud plot. And apparently this right wing media induced insanity has affected a large portion of the population.
Like drug addictions, it’s a highly profitable venture for the pushers. Hold your nose sometime and go to the InfoWars website.
The headlines are the typical aggrandizing bullshit (Alex Jones got to visit the moon with Elon Musk, or something) but what is significant is the banner across the middle of the page that says The Globalist Storm is Here, SHOP NOW.
This will take you to the InfoWars Store. It’s not just coffee mugs and tee-shirts. There are hundreds, if not thousands of products — many costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. Survivalist stuff, emergency generators and food supply. Spy gear, body armor, furniture with concealed compartments. Nutritional supplements, lots and lots of them. And you can also get coffee mugs, and a bag of “Wake Up America” Patriot Coffee.
Maybe all the Bloomberg’s and Zuckerbergs of the world should buy up Fox News, or something. I’d really like to see some new version of the Fairness Doctrine come into play, but I can’t see how that would happen.
But it’s a public health crisis, a big one. And the people affected won’t admit they have a problem. But fixing this would clear the big hurdle,
Then we could repeal Citizens United and restore faith in our election systems and all that stuff. But nothing’s happening as long Fox and NewsMax and OANN are poisoning the citizenry.