We Limit Freedom Of The Media To Telling The Truth Or We Get Trumpism

 The media instilled insanity of about 40% of the American population is a clear and present danger to us all.  Literally a danger to our loved ones, people we know, and the hundreds of millions we don't know, including the 40% and their loved ones who clearly cannot depend on that love protecting them from the Republican-fascist, billionaire and millionaire lies and encouragement of their worst character flaws packaged in a cocktail of poison marketed for easy sale.  

Remember that when you hear a figure in the media you respect pretending that we can allow the free reign of lies that is called "press freedom" "freedom of speech" "the First Amendment".   The simplistic, naive understanding of those, of the ill chosen phrases such as "Congress shall make no laws. . ." meaning that the media is to be free to lie with impunity has gotten us where we are now.  It is clear that the TV "ministries" of the 1960s and 70s have had that effect for those white populations that were their market audience have been sold on completely abandoning the entire moral foundation of religion imitated by those hucksters,  the Falwells, the Mother Angelicas,  Bakker, Robertson, and their associated movements and cults are the servants of the most vile of Mammons.  

Fascism came to us through screens and, to a somewhat lesser extent, over the radio, it especially came through unregulated cable TV and the internet.   It came through the very media which, if permitted to lie with impunity will destroy democracy. We have seen it happen here as we got Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and II and now the most foul of them so far (and it can always get worse, imagine if Trump were not an incompetent and malign baby-man) during the reign of free speech-free press absolutism IT IS HOW WE GOT HERE. 

I think it's clear that a democracy which does not act, constantly to protect itself against those with accumulated wealth, and so power, against legal schemes dreamed up in law school faculties by the servants of wealth and those with a malicious love of inequality and privilege is a doomed democracy.   Ours is such through the flaws of our Constitution, patched over by the cult of the Constitution and the fetish of the founders and other such secular piety instilled, not so much through school textbooks as through the media, much of it from "liberal Hollywood" who can be counted on for superficial feel-good junk such as some of our more esteemed directors and scribblers have produced.  But that's what got us here as certainly as Falwell, Robertson and the vile Mother Angelica.  No, more so than those clowns.