I've gone through the basic hypocrisy over the media pretending that their content has no effect in the world - that pornography is unrelated to things like sex crimes, for example - and the fact that they make huge amounts of money selling time for content that is precisely claimed by the media to have those effects they deny, ADVERTISING.
It is a basic hypocrisy that is the very substance of the Trump phenomenon, Trump as a public figure is 100% the creation of the mass media, both "entertainment" and "news". Brought to us by lies, not least of which were the endless CNN, other cabloid, and other media told lies about Hillary Clinton, right up to and during the late days of the 2016 campaign, in the New York Times, the paper that got the media the ability to lie with impunity with the ACLU supporting them.
Like his previous Republican-fascist airhead puppet of a president, Ronald Reagan before him, they came into politics through the mass media. The great actor Derick Jacoby said that actors understood if you wanted money you did movies, if you wanted fame you did TV, going on to say that for real artistic satisfaction, you got that from the hard work of acting on the stage. Well, Ronnie wasn't much of an actor but he did Death Valley Days and it made him famous enough to have a horribly destructive career in politics, leaving many deaths in his wake. Trump has been the second success story of that terrible reality. That people mistake TV for reality and it can have an effect on their votes and bring a democracy to the brink of obliteration. Though he hasn't, yet, funded terrorists in Central America, though he encourages them right here in the good ol' USA.
That lie, I suspect invented for the porn industry, certainly benefiting any profit-making person or corporation, that the media telling lies created and sold to have malignant influences in our electoral politics is not something that we must prevent or they will have exactly the effects they have in, first, the Reagan presidency (I believe still the record holder for generating indictments and convictions) and now the Trump one which may outdo Reagan in criminality.
The ACLU was one of the most useful tools for freeing the media to lie with impunity and I am fully convinced that other than stupid liberals who fell for those lines about "there's no proof that" media content has the effect on peoples' behavior that the very same media funding that lie then claims it does when they sell advertising. I think the rights of virtually every group or many of the individuals they claim to promote in their frequent fund-raising comeons to idiot liberals and brain-dead lefties would have been better off if the ACLU had not ever existed. I think given the help they have been in bringing us Trump, alone, cancels out everything else they've done. And I haven't even mentioned their "gun rights" action, probably helping to arm the "militias" that the Roberts Court counts on to prevent majority rule from breaking out.
No, the ACLU is a consumer fraud and a legal fraud and a bulwark to the Republican-fascists and the real fascists and the Nazis, as I pointed out it was their work on behalf of the Nazis that was the final eye-opening event for me. Anyone who thinks we should tolerate the possibility of Nazis even if they're called the KKK or any of the myriad of gaudy names dreamed up by the psychotics of the "militias" they enable gaining political power again, even in any region of the United States, any group that says we should tolerate that possibility has every reason to be totally de-funded, exposed and discredited.
It may come as a shock to many a white liberal but it has, in fact, happened here, slavery and Jim Crow, the campaign to wipe out the Native Inhabitants of the Americas, the efforts against Latinos, all of those were it happening here as is, in fact, the Republican-fascist campaign to completely wipe out the gains of the great Civil Rights movement as the end of Reconstruction wiped out the gains of the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution. Including violence, police violence as an intrinsic part of that suppression of equal rights and egalitarian democracy. The Roberts Court, soon to be bolstered with another fascist "justice" will do that,though, no doubt, they will rule in accord with the amicus briefs churned out by the ACLU in support of "free speech - free press" especially when that "speech" is in the form of money. Lies, in other words, supporting the "right" of lies to be spread in the mass media. That's what it comes down to.
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