What Is Really Starting To Bother Me Is How Many Cable News Hosts & Talking ....

[global1]

heads are casually talking about 'the end to our democracy'.

I see such an end as cataclysmic - yet I don't sense the same level of concern as this is being reported and talked about.

[Walleye]

1. They also casually talked about the end of Roe versus Wade as something that was theoretical

[Emile]

2. Republicans have turned this country into a Banana Republic with the

help of the media!

[inthewind21]

23. So

Where does the voting public fall in this transition?

[Emile]

25. We'll see this fall. Many red states changed voting laws.

[Aussie105]

3. Soft soaping!

"Yeah, well, end of Democracy won't affect you that much, if at all."

"Abortion rights? Well, it's an absract concept, don't worry about it!"

Trivializing things is the new approach, it's suggested you just sit back and let it all happen.

Well, just remember. As an independent individual capable of some intelligent internal mental processing and developing conclusions about the validity and worth of what you are being fed, you may well decide it's all deceptively devious and deviously deceptive.

Feel free to turn off the main-stream media brainwashing propaganda.

This may involve pushing the power switch on your remote, or the application of a brick with maximum prejudice to your TV.

[jaxexpat]

4. It's no big deal.

On a really slow news day they'll talk about, " What to wear and where to be for Armageddon next week".

[live love laugh]

5. Reminds me of family feuds until somebody dies

just as democracy seems to be.

When the actual losses start piling up and it’s too late THEN they will be less casual.

It all feels like trying to stop a moving train.

[ToxMarz]

6. I think they are all auditioning for their roles

in the post-democratic 'American' news media.

[wnylib]

19. True. I think they look forward to it.

[sop]

7. That's the same way they report on cataclysmic climate change.

[hunter]

8. Turn it off.

Television is the worst possible medium for news and opinion.

It appeals directly to our emotions, bypassing our critical thinking skills.

It normalizes what is not normal, and manipulates us emotionally.

Television brought us Trump. That's unforgivable.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Corporate News is f*cked.

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. They are far from the smartest people in the room.

[NJCher]

15. so true

we at DU know more than they do.

To them it's just a job.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Totally agree. Maddening

[Stainless]

12. Just this morning Joe Scarborough was an obnoxious asshole.......

to a leftist writer who suggested that billionaires should pay more of a fair share of taxes so poor people can earn a living wage. Joe and Mika helped get the Fascist orange bastard elected in 2016 so I really hate their fucking guts for that.

[treestar]

13. Strange too because they'd be at the most risk

of persecution, for saying something wrong. They have free speech now and are safe - why don't they feel the fear of the possibility of being punished for saying the wrong thing? They think they will be part of the ruling class?

[NJCher]

17. see posts 10 & 15

abstraction is hard, said Barbie.

[ancianita]

14. They toe the corporate line. Media corporations profit from divisive messaging.

Know it when you see it and don't get outraged, since that's exactly the reaction they want.

No, there's no concern shown because people don't want to lend credence to this toxic talk in the public arena.
There's already enough anti-democracy talk through right wing sites, podcasts and radio these days.

[gab13by13]

16. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC

are just different degrees of brainwashing.

I only watch Nicolle, Mehdi Hasan, and Chris Hayes once in a while.

[overleft]

18. The same people who own the MSM are the top supporters of the GQP.

The talking heads are saying what they are directed to say by the oligarchs that own the networks.

[rubbersole]

20. Yep.

I knew we had really lost some part of our collective souls when elementary school kids had "active shooter drills" and all it was was a news story. Same MSM owners have the most stock in the gun/defense industry. (And big pharma, health care, oil companies, big agriculture...)

[PatrickforB]

21. That's because profits for their shareholders keep rolling in. The only way these corporate-heads

would be talking about the end of democracy as if it would be a cataclysm is if it would affect profits.

That's sad, I know, but it is the truth. Shareholder profits are held to be more important than everything else - workers, consumers, the environment, democracy. None of that is important to Wall Street. The main thing is keeping profits up!

[dlk]

22. It's their hubris

They are convinced they’re immune from any ill effects of a dictatorship as well as they lack the ability to stretch their minds far enough to understand the actual reality of such a situation. Since they’ve never experienced life under a dictator, they don’t know and they don’t care.

[Kaleva]

24. More and more, it appears people don't watch cable news to be informed

They watch it to be indoctrinated.

Or they watch it so they can be mad about something.

[Brainfodder]

26. Paid handsomely bad actors.

If you want to know what's up in their propaganda, I just visited /r/Trump on reddit.

Loads of BS, calling Biden fascist and his speech OMG so awful to them.

Playing the accuse him of what they are doing OVERKILL edition!