Time for Entertainers to Go on Strike

….the only way to fight Voter Suppression

In his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Professor Neil H. Postman argued that Americans are controlled by their addiction to entertainment rather than by state control and/or media control.

With his cries of “Fake News!” ex-President Donald Trump constantly lied about who was controlling us. He claimed that there was a strong, left-wing bias among the media, slanting their coverage of his presidency and the condition of our country.

In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

Since the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Fox News, has generated billions of dollars in advertising revenue from running right-wing shows. Not only was Faux News not “fair and balanced,” but it was duplicitous throughout its coverage of everything from war, to education, to health, to housing, to racism, to our economy, and on and on and on.

And, for the last 30+ years, it helped brainwash the low-information voters among us into believing the most factually, scientifically, and culturally absurd notions about who we are and what we should be as a nation. And those voters put Trump into the White House and elected a bunch of troglodytes into the Republican Party.