Progressive challenger Saikat Chakrabarti faced stone-faced stares and laughter on CNN when discussing Trump's memo declaring war on political opponents. CNN shut down the conversation, but the NSPM-7 dam is breaking in the media. #NSPM7
I appreciate it, but I don’t mind the downvotes. In fact if anyone disagrees or believes the statement is incorrect, I encourage downvotes and an explanation of why.
When something so dangerous seems to be deliberately ignored by most media outlets, downvoting a scary statement just because it’s scary feels equivalent to just closing your eyes, covering your ears, and chanting this isn’t happening over and over.
I feel like it’s important people understand the reality of what we’re really facing here. We all know we are living under an authoritarian leader, and that most media is currently owned and controlled by oligarchs. This isn’t the first time we’ve found ourselves in this situation, and sadly it won’t be the last. When this extremely dangerous, denial of reality, gaslighting shit happens, we need to talk about it instead of waiting for the media to be given the ok to do the right thing.
That is the point we are at in the U.S. If there isn’t enough public pressure to expose something that this administration would prefer to keep under wraps, then it’s never going to be exposed.
The clear consensus of the corporate world during this era is to suppress anything that could cause instability or anger. Even people who know things are fucked keep trudging on like business is normal because the truth is too hard to face.
I didnt down vote you, I just saw this now. I up voted it to offset it :)
I appreciate it, but I don’t mind the downvotes. In fact if anyone disagrees or believes the statement is incorrect, I encourage downvotes and an explanation of why.
When something so dangerous seems to be deliberately ignored by most media outlets, downvoting a scary statement just because it’s scary feels equivalent to just closing your eyes, covering your ears, and chanting this isn’t happening over and over.
I feel like it’s important people understand the reality of what we’re really facing here. We all know we are living under an authoritarian leader, and that most media is currently owned and controlled by oligarchs. This isn’t the first time we’ve found ourselves in this situation, and sadly it won’t be the last. When this extremely dangerous, denial of reality, gaslighting shit happens, we need to talk about it instead of waiting for the media to be given the ok to do the right thing.
That is the point we are at in the U.S. If there isn’t enough public pressure to expose something that this administration would prefer to keep under wraps, then it’s never going to be exposed.
The clear consensus of the corporate world during this era is to suppress anything that could cause instability or anger. Even people who know things are fucked keep trudging on like business is normal because the truth is too hard to face.