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After Watergate Americans learned that a free press could bring down a tyrannical government. So the Right got to work destroying the free press.
Reagan went after the Fairness Doctrine and made it easier for one company to own all the TV and radio stations in a town. The new tech helped destroy the local newspapers.
The more I learn, the more I learn Republicans have been hurting America for decades
Around 55 years, when the southern strategy was enacted to solidify racist support for Republicans.
Before that the parties were more mixed and it was the confederates and robber barons doing the damage. Before that it was the slave owners. And before that it was the colonizers. Before that it was probably whichever tribe had the best growing season or pointiest flint arrowheads.
I’m starting to second guess what the point of progress really is. Are we trying to ride humanity out until the heat death of the universe? Or just the next billion years before the sun boils our oceans away? Another 2000 years so today’s assholes can become deities? 52 more years the the US Tricentennial?
The lethargic, stagnant, apathetic, merciless, ignorant, xenophobic state of humanity in the sci-fi Lord of the Rings fan fiction called Warhammer 40,000 is getting increasingly more prophetic.
Try at least a century. Go listen to some of FDR's campaign speeches, many of them are as relevant today as when they were given.
Republicans and democrats controlled by big business and billionaires
And after the Panama Papers, they got to work with Khashoggi. After Epstein, they got to work with Twitter
1996 Telecommunications Act
1996 is 16 years after 1980, when Reagan started it.
Blaming the Act is like saying Harry Truman won WW2 for the Americans.
Irrelevant.
The Fairness Doctrine was not about ownership. The 1996 TCA was exactly about ownership.