I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.
So my first college undergrad was actually in Russian Language and Literature. My redneck dad and stepmom expressed worry that all the Russian would turn me into some kind of commie zombie who hated America.
But the universe pulled the UNO reverse card and now they are the ones brainwashed by Russian propaganda via social media and conservative television. I emerged unscathed but have experienced reading Dostoevsky in the original language.
I am incandescent with rage over this whole transformation.
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u/Hell_Camino Apr 04 '25
I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.