What's your proposal for how Fox News should be handled, given they "lie every single day"?
Should Fox News have their licenses removed, and be taken off the air & internet?
Should Fox News have their licenses removed, and be taken off the air & internet?
[0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-stops-airing...
That said, given the increasing irrelevance of broadcast TV, I don't see how removing their licence would achieve much.
A rallying call like that simply doesn’t work on Democrats, but god does it work on Republicans. I just don’t see any of this dying down at all, and the Republicans are always prepared to tap into this demo around election time (in two years time at the mid terms). They live for this.
Banning them just validated their world view. This is all going to get even bigger now, and they will head into the catacombs.
Sanders coalition is about the only grassroots group that came from the left and was swiftly rejected (twice).
The grass roots movements of the tea party took the Obama era super majority away, and fortified a Trump outsider run.
The boots on the ground every-man on the left is harder to rally, and thus far have not shown any ability to even dominate their own party (their platforms don’t even get taken up by the broader party, just parroted). Plus, if it were possible, there would be a voice in the mainstream media stoking this contingent (as in business has identified an obvious market).
The Democrats lack physical presence. It’s been an ongoing issue for us for a very long time. We had extreme issues with getting our youth vote out, getting our minority votes out. It literally took a black President to get that demo to show up, and for some reason they stopped showing up right after he was gone (for Hilary). The kids don’t turn out at all for decades now. Many could argue if we didn’t literally send out mail in ballots, the turn out would have been lower. Republicans don’t have this problem, so no, I don’t think a warcry works on the Democrats because we have been very weak on physical presence for decades now.
But in terms of madness, of course, all mobs are susceptible to this. Virtual turn out on the left is disproportionately high. The #metoo and BLM movements are clear examples of this. But again, the physical presence is lacking. The riots last summer were a blip and not coordinated, and led to zero legislation. I’ll concede #metoo inevitably entered into madness territory.
The Republican tea-party people have been practicing for years protesting in DC, and they have their physical turnout covered in almost every election.
If anything, I envy the right-wing’s ability to rally, and do not fear rally-calls on the left because we can barely show up for an election.
Also a quick google search showed that 75% of the Tea Party were 45 or older (back in 2012).
My take is that there’s a desperation behind the last 20 years or so.
Haven’t you wondered what would cause an entire segment of the population to take a deep dive with thinly-disguised racists and Russian trolls?
Even having a balanced budget hasn't worked out for "the right". When they've been in power, the budget deficit hasn't really decreased.
Perhaps this has made "the right" more desperate? Maybe they need to rethink their principles instead?
(I use quotation marks for the sides, because these really aren't issues that fit on a one dimensional scale. A libertarian could fall on the right, but still support "the left" on most of the above issues. Also, this is mostly US specific.)
The Democratic establishment is in danger of this fate in the long term as well. They are sure taking the easy money from the progressive talk, but if they don’t deliver, it’s going to backfire in 2-3 elections from within.
In my opinion that is a good property in general, just no for elections.
Rail all you like about it, but the republicans under Trump had both houses, got two judges, defunded a vast number of programs, won multiple issues in their identity wars, and donald trump got more voters to come out and vote for him in the second election
He got more votes, despite having a 40-45(?) approval rating (what I remember from 538)
The only “mistake” was riling up democrats enough to make them come out and vote more.
What are the repercussions?
There will be political roadblocks to see how much damage can be offloaded or dumped into a heat sink.
The republicans will regroup and then prepare for the Biden presidency.
So yes, you are right - madness was/is the superior political tactic. The better tactic survives.
Sounds like a good start. They have been involved in laundering terrorist rhetoric and incitement to mass attacks. Take the case of Fox employing Tucker Carlson.
Tucker owns Daily Caller.
Daily Caller published an article extolling the virtues of ISIS-style ramming attacks against protestors.
Fox News republished this article. The result was a spike in ramming attacks against protestors.
Fox gracefully pulled the article after complaints, no blow back since it wasn't their own article anyways. Nothing to see here, just entities paying each other and relaying each other's incitement.
There has to be at least a dozen people at Fox News that need to be imprisoned for their role in pursuing death and violence against political and cultural opponents. So yes lets do the steps you mentioned then move on to discovery so we can find out how execs at Fox measured success when publishing incitement.
Something you would have expected from the "liberal" media pre 2010.
US District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil agreed with Fox's premise, adding that the network "persuasively argues" that "given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statements he makes."
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case...
It's the "any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism" part that seems to be the problem.