NYT: Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?

[certainot]

77. we haven't had a real democracy the last 30 years

when reagan killed the fairness doctrine in 87 the right bought up 1000 radio stations and they didn't even need media deregulation 10 years later - they just put guys like limbaugh and hannity on 500 radio stations each spewing the exact same messaging, reinforced with local blowhards coordinated by state.

so now we have several hundred professional liars dominating 40 red states with 80 senators. in those states the monopoly has aggressively protected itself from competition and except for a few states there are no free easy alternatives for politics. foolish liberals repeat the talking points that liberals can't compete but its ma and pop vs wall mart. creating an alternate reality because liberals ignored the fascist psyops, allowing them to create made to order constituencies for any occasion.

amazingly, not only do liberals still evaluate this election, an election dominated by talk radio memes and lies, as if talk radio doesn't exist, liberals allow without protest 88 major universities to rent their sports brands and community cred to 257 fucking limbaugh stations so they can sell global warming denial, racism, and public ed privatization.

how fucking stupid is that.