The New York Times Began This Slide Into Fascism It's Not Surprising That They Are Normalizing It

It's hard to keep up with the outrages of police and military lawbreaking and violations of oaths, which, of course,start at the higher levels. William Barr is clearly all in with Fascism Now! and his pet rock, Trump.  And the police unions - as some have noticed I was calling that one for a long time before those became a generally known menace to government of, by and for The People and The People, too.  

This is a situation that has been building since George Wallace and Nixon ran for president in 1968 and earlier. Only this time the New York Times has explicitly supported overt calls by a sitting U. S. Senator for fascism on its editorial pages - not that they weren't in for it before, they just didn't feel that it would be acceptable to do it until fascism had reached this level of power.  As I've read this morning, as they were publishing Tom Cotton's call for fascism, they were rejecting a number of pieces which were the opposing POV.   Here's Barbara Ehrenreich's piece which the New York Times rejected in favor of King Cotton's. 

A Journalist Marked by Police Violence
Linda Tirado, partially blinded by a rubber bullet in Minneapolis protests, remains an important voice against social and economic injustice in America.

"Rubber bullets" are bullets, they injure, maim and sometimes kill, what we are seeing are police, often entirely unprovoked, firing on American citizens in many American cities.  This is looking more and more like it is going to be the point of decision, whether or not the United States will turn to democracy, egalitarian democracy, the only kind deserving the name or any effort to retain it, or the fascism which those with wealth, and so power, their media, their legal and academic establishment want and have worked to establish.   That the New York Times has acted as it has is no surprise to me at all, they are and have been in the business of normalizing, of habituating the American People into accepting this for decades, they were the bulwark in providing the fascists some of their best tools, getting legal protection for lying by the mass media.  They are not alone, especially the 24-hour cabloid news industry, CNN, FOX, the now different MSNBC when I started writing blog pieces when Rick Kaplan considered poaching Tucker Carlson from PBS.  Yeah,  PBS and NPR were up to the top of their coffee mugs in on it  they were all in on it.  But it was the New York Times that led the way in the Sullivan Decision, them and the ACLU and the "civil liberties" industry in general which got that permission for the media that in so many cases were paying them to lead us here.