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This is the beginning of the end of the Republic.
that was 2016. and it's been awhile in the making.
just a few of the highlights: 60s-70s goldwater/nixon and the southern strategy.. the 80s reaganomics, deregulation, abolishment of fairness doctrine.. the 90s newt & co, the rise of far-right media.. 2000 scotus stopping the count and picking the 'winner'.. 2010 citizens united.
I can’t agree with you on the fairness doctrine specifically; first it only applied to over-the-air broadcasting, (so ABC, NBC, etc.) but not cable or the Internet. Secondly it was largely interpreted by these networks as forcing fringe views into the main stream. So they would have a faith healer on at the same time as a doctor, or a creationist on at the same time as a paleontologist. There are those who feel that this led directly to our current “my faith is as important as your reason” problem.
The problem with your theory is that with the removal of the Fairness Doctrine, the creationist and the faith healer weren't deplatformed. Instead, they stopped needing to have a doctor or a paleontologist on the air to fact check them. That's what led to "my faith being as important as your reason," a bunch of far-right religious programming that no longer needed to host experts that would rightfully tear their ideas to shreds.
Also there wasn't any internet and broadcasting over the airwaves counted for most TV networks of the time.
There were 53 million households in the US with cable when the fairness doctrine was eliminated in 1987. Cable and the Internet are where and why the people we have been talking about weren’t deplatformed. The Internet has been around since the 60s. I think you might be confusing it with the World Wide Web which is a 90s thing.
The beginning was like two months ago; we're now about 40% of the way in.
Nah man, it's well past the beginning.
Rap it up its over already
Wrap?
No, he meant rap. It's the best way to communicate his feelings over the state of the country.
That's not the beginning, it's more than halfway past now
It ended a while ago. We're just witnessing the purification.