If you want to blame anyone, blame the press.
The press is important. It changes minds. It is so powerful, the Framers of the Constitution called it the Fourth Estate. It is mentioned SEPARATELY as a fundamental right.
This idea that it is impotent is hilariously wrong.
It is just fucking stupid.
When you have a press SANEWASHING you have a complicit press pushing propaganda.
@feloneouscat You may find this relevant. The right-wing fearosphere has become the dominant narrative now and goes a long way towards explaining how the Orange Shitclown got elected.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-does-no-one-understand-152523953.html
@POOetryma @feloneouscat Don't forget the Church. America was found on the belief of separation of Chuch and State. So much the founding fathers found the need to write it into the Constitution. The Chuch in England was corrupt. After WW2 The Catholic chuch help Germans escape. 2025 the helped Trump win.
@Liberty4all @feloneouscat Some Christians never accepted this idea. This is especially true after SCOTUS ruled in the 1960s that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional. That fueled the notion that Christians and Christianity were under attack. Trump offers them a chance to regain and expand the power they once held in this country, so they back him, despite his numerous flaws.
@POOetryma @Liberty4all @feloneouscat
THIS 500 times!!
I remember hearing the preacher at the evangelical church I attended in the mid-to-late 70s talking about how Christians were having their rights systematically stripped away by "radical liberals" or some such shit. "They came after prayer, and now they want to take our bibles and close down our churches." I was a teen then, and I didn't know any better, so I believed it.
@Tee_Lynn @POOetryma @Liberty4all @feloneouscat It's been feeding itself a steady diet of manufactured grievance, scapegoating and its own supposed moral superiority for decades.
The church discovered that it could create solidarity out of antagonising minority out-groups, and eventually far-right politics found its new power source.
@sumpnlikefaith @POOetryma @Liberty4all @feloneouscat
Direct, concise, and well-condensed. This is good, even though it isn't good.