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• jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah it’s part of the problem. I think it’s exacerbated by the fact that the US basically legalized bribery with Citizens United.

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  • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fairness doctrine being abolished was the end of America.

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    • jontree255@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s one bullet point on a long list that got us here. Installing a Christian nationalist dictatorship has been the right’s goal for 50+ years.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.

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      • fishy@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s not a silver bullet, but it was a very useful way to ensure people didn’t become radicalized by just listening to one side lie constantly. There’s a reason why Reagan and Nixon wanted it gone, and we’re living through the repercussions of not having it now; radicalized far right extremists everywhere and in control of the government. Also, we could have made updates to expand it or introduce new legislation to curb extremism on other platforms.

        Definitely far from perfect but better than our current reality.

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  • thelivefive@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    More legalized. Lobbying was already legalized bribery. Citizens United was just them making sure they get to pick who they bribe.

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    • OshagHennessey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And also allowed them to bribe anonymously, don’t forget that very important part.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s not even the fundamental flaws that make it so bad (they could theoretically be worked-around or fixed), I think at some point the system was captured by a group that to this day ensures both parties remain ineffectual and operate towards the same war goals.

  Saying “the whole thing is a pantomine” seems like a lazy throwaway remark from some stranger you meet at a bar or your disillusioned uncle, and yet it’s exactly the conclusion you have to come to. We are controlled by the illusion of democracy and illusion of own influence

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