The American Media Is The Source Of Its Insanity With The Permission of The Legal Establishment: It Rotted From The Top Down

I can't think of a single thing that would be better this year for it to turn into a total 1972 style disaster for Republicans.   Though the idea that we could keep the red states on the election day map down to two is unlikely, it could be, effectively, like that.  But only if Democrats and others turn it into one. And nothing that would be more likely, in a country thinking clearly and with a strong sense of morality.  McGovern, entirely better than Richard Nixon had to face down not only the criminal Nixon administration and its Republican Party but the national media which was solidly promoting Nixon and presenting one of the most competent and decent men to run for the Presidency as a cartoon.  Well the Republicans are running an actual cartoon,  The Joker, or whatever other comic book embodiment of evil you care to compare Donald Trump to.  And with the definitive difference that a President Donald Trump won't keep his evil relegated to lurid ink pictures on cheap paper.   Not that the news media will notice that.  It will be too busy pushing Republican lies against Hillary Clinton as "balanced presentation".   Jake Tapper of CNN did exactly that in pushing the Breitbart production of election year lies about Hillary Clinton to "balance" the Trump-U scandal which is being proven in court.

That Libertarian Convention coverage on C-Span is emblematic of the degeneracy of the American media and, since American media consumes the majority of conscious hours of the American people, the culture and society of America.   We are truly living in a country which is in danger of being ruled by pathologically childish people and the media is not doing what any responsible media would be doing, working with all its might to present the information that would prevent that from happening.  The media, from the highest venues of print media, far left to center-right, have been "balancing" us into a Felliniesque nightmare.   No, make that one that will mix the nightmare scenarios of fascist Italy with American Psycho and, in time, something that Leni Riefenstahl would have filmed with detached, classic camera angles and editing, only no one will bother making a Trump fascist junta look any better than American TV.

American fascism is a product of Ivy League level legal and media theory and the very real corporate media which would figure they could do business with a President Trump.  They have been doing business with him for decades now, if they hadn't he would be an obscure and corrupt real estate millionaire instead of someone in danger of being a fascist strong-man in the Oval Office.   The Trump fascist government will be the result of giving him a "reality" TV show.  That kind of "reality" is what they are all about, entertainment and the infotainment division that calls itself "news".

The Bible says that you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.  Well, that's true but no more true that a country fed on lies will not be able to be free and our media, the content provider of what we've got to think about public affairs with has been selling the American people lies since the Supreme Court gave them a license to in 1964.  It's a miracle that we haven't all lost our minds long before now.