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But ppls aren’t getting the info they need. John Oliver, or someone like him, tracked how little time the major OTA networks spend covering the climate crisis — virtually none. And don’t forget that a shocking % of the American public tunes in to propaganda rather than actual news.

Big Biz calls all the shots, and thanks to the previous conservative Supreme Court (now an ultra-conservative super majority), corps. are people and can make massive political donations.

It’s probably too late for anything to improve in the US — rich GOPs have been working for 40 years to get GOP majorities in state legislatures, which enables them to gerrymander and thus retain a false majority in Congress, and to buy up/consolidate media so they can control the info (propaganda) shared in many area.

That said, we have to fight. Pls urge your rep. and sens. (by phone or email) to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Pls volunteer with groups that want to end Citizens United, and expand voting rights. Pls volunteer to elect progressive candidates who will make a positive difference. And pls urge everyone you know to do the same.

Btw, pls read (if you haven’t already) Nicholas Kristof’s May 2020 column in the NYT titled “McDonald’s Employees in Denmark Pity Us” — gives a glimpse of the kind of highly functioning, well-funded, safe, peaceful, and less inequitable democracy we should aspire to. Among other things, this piece tacitly refutes the “B-b-but … socialism!” crowd’s talking points.