The information we consume directly impacts the health of our democracy. Improving your media diet, and the diets of others, is the best medicine against the quickly metastisizing cancer of fascism.
You’re not a broken record, just the lone fire alarm in a house already filled with smoke, and the neighbors are still arguing over whether it’s “polite” to say FIRE. The cancer metaphor is exactly right. Fascism thrives because our media class keeps prescribing sugar pills and calling them chemotherapy. They elevate Trump’s lies like they’re artisanal farm-to-table produce instead of the rat poison they are, and then wonder why the body politic is rotting from the inside out.
We don’t need “both sides,” we need triage. We need journalists who aren’t stenographers for fascists but are willing to say, loudly and repeatedly, this is a dictatorship in motion. And we need citizens who stop feeding themselves on corporate infotainment swill and start building their immune systems with real pro-democracy journalism.
Because here’s the truth: cancer, untreated, kills. Democracy untreated dies. And the bastards are betting that we’ll keep flipping the channel instead of fighting for our lives.
You’re not a broken record, just the lone fire alarm in a house already filled with smoke, and the neighbors are still arguing over whether it’s “polite” to say FIRE. The cancer metaphor is exactly right. Fascism thrives because our media class keeps prescribing sugar pills and calling them chemotherapy. They elevate Trump’s lies like they’re artisanal farm-to-table produce instead of the rat poison they are, and then wonder why the body politic is rotting from the inside out.
We don’t need “both sides,” we need triage. We need journalists who aren’t stenographers for fascists but are willing to say, loudly and repeatedly, this is a dictatorship in motion. And we need citizens who stop feeding themselves on corporate infotainment swill and start building their immune systems with real pro-democracy journalism.
Because here’s the truth: cancer, untreated, kills. Democracy untreated dies. And the bastards are betting that we’ll keep flipping the channel instead of fighting for our lives.
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