• Saracha@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Unfortunately the law would’ve never applied to fox news, as it was broadcast only and cable was exempt. But even so nowadays so much of the information sphere is online, through Facebook, Twitter and the thousand different right wing blog news sites that you aren’t really going to be able to stop anything. The American system very dependent on the two parties having a bipartisan consensus. But after a few decades of the right wing media sphere whipping the base into frenzy after frenzy the ‘true believers’ are the ones in government now and the idea of compromise is done for.

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      8 months ago

      That all breaks down though when you can point to foreign actors stirring the pot. Republicans are really letting other countries decide their fate at this point