The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump

Trump is a fascist. But the mainstream political press doesn’t want to say it. They want to act like 2024 is just another election year.

With their obsession with horse-race coverage, political reporters tend to judge what Trump says or does by whether his words and actions will help him politically. By doing so, the press is saying that Trump’s racism, corruption, criminality, and insane abuses of power matter only so far as his electability.

There are exceptions: major news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, have done some important stories about Trump’s dictatorial plans for a second term. But those investigative stories are drowned out by the chorus of horse-race stories — sometimes published on the same days and by the same news organizations behind more substantial coverage.

The media is sleepwalking.

I’ve often wondered how the press, both in Germany and around the world, failed to see Hitler for the monster that he was before he gained power. After Trump, I think I understand.

Paragone,

Within 4y of Trump being made ruler of the US,

executions of leftist media will have happened.

Natural Selection applies even in political situations.

The “action” of ignoring/denying actuality creates the “reaction” of correction:

No Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod that is caught in a human-category-life which relies-on its assumptions & its established Entitlement, deserves other than what it gets, ( sow-reap-law, as Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph called it, aka karma, as the religion he absorbed during his “lost years” calls it, works ) and just as stock-markets get the corrections they deserve ( through their fakery: the greater the phoniness of their regulation, the more-savage their corrections are, it’s Nature’s LAW ), so too do political-herds.

IF the left’s publishing-system won’t be loyal to actuality/correctness/objectivity, THEN they’re going to be … obliterated.

Exterminated.

It may take a few years for Trump to transform into the absolute-psychopath which is his evolution-vector’s endstate, but it will happen, if not prevented, and … you can search for articles with “the guardrails are off” or “the guardrails are gone” or however they phrased it, when the people limiting the progression-into-psychopathic-machiavellianism … left their roles.

This is bog-standard self-amplifying positive-feedback-loop-of-corruption stuff, that human history is littered with.

Nero, anybody??

Arjuna’s corrupt relatives, that he hadn’t the guts to face, but had the obligation to face?

( Eknath Easwaran’s “The Bhagavad Gita” is the only one I recomnend in English, if anyone wants some beautiful spiritual scripture )

Consequences won’t obey making-believing.

US Civil War Part2’s coming, because the Confederates only pretended to surrender, and now they’re getting even with the ones who violated their supremacist religion…

Either get out, or dig in.

But prepare for the next decade to reduce the US’s population by about 1/3 to 2/3rds.

It hasn’t been preventable since Reagan, possibly since the 1950’s, and it would have required one hell of great investment in quality education, nutrition, etc, in order to get the children competent in Critical Thinking as their bedrock instinct, which is the only antidote to ideological-supremacism ( replacing 1 ideological-supremacism with another doesn’t “win the war”, it just wins a battle, & gives a point to whichever ideology it was that one that point, but another ideology will try breaking the country to being owned by it, later, because they all are.

That is the problem!

Breaking ALL ideologies from owning/possessing countries is required, and nobody’s been creating that result!

How could humankind survive The Great Filter, if humankind won’t commit the only victory which could save its life?? )

Whatever, eh?

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CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

They are doing the same stupid stuff they did in 2015 and 2016.

bquintb,
@bquintb@midwest.social avatar

They know, they just don’t care because capitalism

gravitas_deficiency,

Mmmm… they know exactly what is happening, and the c-suites are fine with it because it’s profitable as fuck.

Cybermonk_Taiji,

They grasp it just fine

They are complicit.

JimSamtanko,

Meh… neither does the far left. But they sure do love a good Biden post.

Burn_The_Right,

Conservatives know their normal (non-conservative) friends, colleagues and family members will be cruelly oppressed and will lose fundamental human rights. But as long as conservatives maintain their own rights, they are happy with that.

It’s bizarre and chilling to watch otherwise decent people delight in the misery of others. Conservatives truly, deeply enjoy watching vulnerable people suffer.

Cybermonk_Taiji,

otherwise decent people

citation needed

Feathercrown,

To Kill a Mockingbird moment

Feathercrown,

Anyone who enjoys that is NOT otherwise a good person.

PorradaVFR,

They know perfectly well but prefer the revenue to fulfilling their journalistic responsibility and acting ethically.

When news is a product to market and not a social responsibility this is the result. They’re selling a narrative and horse race delivers profits - also their delusion that kissing the ass of the guy that calls them the enemy might save them could be a factor.

Shameful how their response has been to cower and equivocate and not report objectively and clearly.

Spesknight,

You put Pinochet in charge, now have a taste.

toothpaste_sandwich,

We’ll all have a taste maybe

TachyonTele,

I want newspapers back. Eating breakfast and skimming the news in 10-20 pages was perfect. When you were done you just left the paper there for whoever wanted to read it next. That was it. Today’s newspapers cost as much as a small paperback book and are 6 pages.

Hold on, I’ll brb, there’s another cloud I have to shake my fist at outside.

hannes3120,

The problem is that newspapers were kind of the only means to get the news in a concentrated form - now they are obsolete since everyone gets their news pretty much live and when the newspaper would be out the next morning it’s already old

TachyonTele,

We don’t need 24/7 news. That’s what’s gotten journalism where it is today.

Theprogressivist,
@Theprogressivist@lemmy.world avatar

They know what they’re doing.

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, I don’t get why people seem to think the media doesn’t know. They absolutely do.

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

They don’t care because they imagine that they’re somehow protected.

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

Well, won’t that be embarrassing for them.

lurch,

They just compete to not be destroyed when he wins and become part of his national propaganda network.

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