While the media fixate on partisan blame, Russ Vought and a hard-right GOP faction are quietly using the shutdown to sidestep Congress and reshape government.
What I don’t understand is that “the media” is staffed by ordinary people that are suffering as much as everyone else. Every single one of these organisations has the option to disagree, but nobody does. It’s impossible that they are all staffed only by by magats - why doesn’t anything happen against this fascism?
Many Americans, especially white men who haven’t been targeted much so far, don’t feel that the problems matter to them personally. They think “everything is cyclical, it’s all just hype, I’m doing OK, I can’t risk my job, fuck it”.
And that will work for them, until some day it won’t, because fascists are never satisfied with what they have. But it’s sad, too, because it shows a clear lack of community values.
A lot of the big media companies have been getting snapped up by billionaires over the last decade or so. The staffers are normal people, but the editors and producers have been either made to toe the line or replaced.
That’s why the reporters aren’t reporting on this. They’re not allowed to.
“rich elites” don’t do the actual work. That’s what I mean. There must be hordes of non-rich non-elites doing that work. And surely they can’t all be magats.
What I don’t understand is that “the media” is staffed by ordinary people that are suffering as much as everyone else. Every single one of these organisations has the option to disagree, but nobody does. It’s impossible that they are all staffed only by by magats - why doesn’t anything happen against this fascism?
Many Americans, especially white men who haven’t been targeted much so far, don’t feel that the problems matter to them personally. They think “everything is cyclical, it’s all just hype, I’m doing OK, I can’t risk my job, fuck it”.
And that will work for them, until some day it won’t, because fascists are never satisfied with what they have. But it’s sad, too, because it shows a clear lack of community values.
A lot of the big media companies have been getting snapped up by billionaires over the last decade or so. The staffers are normal people, but the editors and producers have been either made to toe the line or replaced.
That’s why the reporters aren’t reporting on this. They’re not allowed to.
They are not ordinary people. They are rich elites, capitalism and fascism go hand in hand.
“rich elites” don’t do the actual work. That’s what I mean. There must be hordes of non-rich non-elites doing that work. And surely they can’t all be magats.
That is very naive