• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As someone who lived through the 90s, none of this is surprising. Starting with AM radio, they’ve courted people in the vast emptiness between cities because that’s where the cheapest political power exists in America. In the 90s it was the “Religious Right” In the 00’s and 10’s it was “The Tea Party.” Past that you’ve got the various alt-right groups like Qanon.

    I’m reminded of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, where the apprentice creates a bunch of automatons to carry water for him and is almost drowned by it. Except the wizard is Mitch fucking McConnell.

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      1 year ago

      Haha that’s an amazingly accurate analogy I’ve never thought of with the mop buckets. I give you metaphorical Lemmy Gold 🥇

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      Before the 1990s, ’ the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine’ kept one person/company from owning too many radio stations and forced broadcasters to air both sides of the argument. Reagan started the push to kill it, and eventually it passed away.