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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, January 23, 2020

How Do We Solve Fox News?

It's clear that Fox - more than any other pathogen in our body politic - is killing America's experiment in representative government.  Liberal democracy cannot survive without at least a nodding acquaintance with objective reality.

Trump - a belligerent ignoramus - would only be allowed in the White House on a tour, if it were not for Fox News. Similar apparatus have existed in the past, but Fox has such greater reach than John Birch newsletters.

America needs a sane right of center party to function.  Instead, we have a party consumed by the idiocracy of Fox.

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