Why are Trump VOTERS not blamed for Trumpism?

[Funtatlaguy]

14. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Media ownership IS KEY 🔑 !!!

Rupert Murdoch had to get an American citizenship and move to America but that was it.
Once he did that, he could own tons of American media and turn them into right wing propaganda outlets just as he did in Great Britain and his Australian birthplace.

What is considered LEGITIMATE media must be changed.
Otherwise, with no safeguards of the public interest, it’s just all Goebbels like propaganda.

Besides what you have listed, there is also Sinclair broadcasting, a right wing source that has bought so many local American broadcast tv stations that has poisoned 🤮 local news.
This coming after Clear Channel Radio had bought up the entire AM radio spectrum and later much of the FM as well. This led to the emergence of not only Rush Limbaugh, but so many other Rush wannabe clones like Mark Levin on radio stations that preached right wing lies and propaganda 24 hours a day.
Over the road truck drivers, usually older white males with low education levels, listened all day long to how white Christian males were being abused and emasculated by liberals.
And now, Tucker Carlson preaches the same message nightly on Fox News.

Why does all of this matter?
Because the pen (or the microphone 🎤 is mightier than the sword.
Democratic Republics are not designed to withstand propaganda sources disguised 🥸 (or even not disguised) as legitimate news sources.
Once people doubt all of the the Fifth Estate, they then doubt their government, and then they will believe anything that a great con man or woman or “political party” sells them.
For years now, these groups have preached to their flocks that there is no bigger enemy that a Democrat.
They changed the name of our Democratic Party to the DemocRAT party (emphasis intentional).
They talked about how a college education was a bad thing because being “overly educated”
Would turn your children into latte drinking, tree hugging, Prius driving liberal elite socialists or communists. Or worst yet, a DemoncRAT.

Again, why does this matter?
Forgiving the Greens, Libertarians, Constitutional party types, but America is a two party system.
And a two party system can not survive when one of those parties has given up being a party and decided to become a personality cult, or WORSE, a group dedicated to destroy democracy and install an Authoritarian system owned and operated by the 1% that has bamboozled 30-40% of the nation into following them by using religion as a cudgel.
The wealthy and powerful (though not privately religious themselves) would be fine with ruling over a White Christian Nationalist type of Taliban Gilead Handmaids Tale looking country.

Can it be stopped?
Maybe, but Only by the Democratic Party.
They are our only hope. For right now (until we get at least 52 Dems in the Senate) that includes Manchin and Sinema.
So we must keep cajoling them and biting our tongue 👅 for now while cursing them behind their backs. We all hate, of course, that these two people have so much power.
But it is what it is FOR NOW.
Just imagine how great it would be if DC,PR, Guam, USVI, we’re all granted statehood.
That would, most likely, give us 8 more Dem Senate seats to help overcome some of the very lightly populated current states like Montana that are basically just rural “communities” as compared to places like NY and Cal. Yet, as we hang on to the antiquated electoral college, the people in those small (all RED) states proportionally have so much more power per capita than the large states.

So, thank you, my fellow “socialist/communist/DemoncRAT” comrades of mine.
May we keep tree hugging, and latte drinking and Prius driving while we phone bank, and canvass and beg and plead others to vote for the Democrats in ALL races in the midterms.
This includes all federal, state, and local elections which includes city councils and school boards which are held by way too many right wing nut jobs currently. You’ve undoubtedly seen them on tv reports screaming about CRT, grooming, trans people, etc.

Hell, vote for a Democratic dogcatcher if one is on a ballot.
As a dog 🐕 lover, I don’t want any dogs fate decided by a Republican.
Just an FYI, Trump has stated that he was never allowed to have a dog as a child.
He’s, therefore, afraid 😱 of them and doesn’t like them now.
And as my Grandma used to say, “son, you can tell an awful lot about a person by that that they treat the elderly, small children, and animals”.

Sermon over. Finally off of my soap 🧼 box 📦.
If you’ve read this far, thank you 🙏 but you might consider a hobby (might I suggest phone banking?) instead of reading long posts by an old fart yellow dog Democrat who has seen his better days but who still loves his country.
At least, what he still recognizes of it and still hopes for its survival as a democracy that embraces all peoples and believes in the separation of church and a free and independent factual based media.
😃🤗😉
Good luck 👍, and go have a great day. I think I’m going to have one of my favorite waistline destroying desserts, some homemade hot blackberry cobbler with cinnamon ice cream.
Try it, you’ll thank me later. 😆