This is exactly what the current top comment (by shklnrj) is talking about, and is one of the major reasons that Trump got elected. darkmouth here is doubling down on the exact same strategy that lead many away from liberalism this election cycle.
You'll (Americans) have long ceased to have a conversation with each other.
People seem to have forgotten the many decades of Fox News (when there was no internet), the steady movement of debate from policy to stuff like "birthers", tea parties, gun boats, creationism, and so on.
The larger debate has been going south for decades. Why do you think people weren't violently sick when a person who would count as a boorish Buffoon 20 years ago, became the republican candidate?
There never was any debate or meeting in the first place!
Today liberals are frightened and incandescently angry. As a result they are turning to the same kind of language and radicalization any group does in such a situation.
People aren't going to be going away from liberalism - they're going to be more militantly liberal in order to meet conservative forces.
Fox News was founded in 1996; the internet started being publicly popular in 1994-1995 (and had been around for decades earlier); there were not any decades of Fox News when there was no internet.
The period 1996-2006 was extremely different when compared to the last several years.
Consumption of media is not the same, and the impact of old media sources is not the same either.
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I do appreciate the correction. I was wrong and your correction Has helped me recall and revise other facts about the empire built by Fox News and Murdoch.
As I recall Fox News is the one which helped make climate change deniers look respectable, and helped build the world we live in today.