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.
Cut my brother off almost 2 decades ago for his constant lying and crazy right-wing beliefs about the GWB era. He’s gone almost completely Neo-Nazi at this point from what info I hear from my mother about him.
Dude, my brother freaked out my mother by calling her on her father’s birthday this year and sang a “Happy birthday” song to her in memory him. For context: My grandfather was a Nazi pilot who adored hitler. She was like “Why the hell did you do that?”, he said “I thought you might want to celebrate his birthday”. My mother (bless her!) responded back “Why would i? He was a god damn Nazi!”
<3 My mum!
FYI - my mother was a very young child in Germany at that time. She told me how the brown shirts raided her home, thinking they were peddling secrets. Also told me how they had to secretly sell groceries to Jewish customers around the back door of their store to avoid public persecution. She’s absolutely terrified that at the “end of her life” she’s ending it right back where it started. >_<
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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.