03-21-2019, 03:00 PM
FoX Propaganda Channel really does distort political views.
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50% of Republican voters who do not watch FoX News agree that the President was right to declare a national emergency to get border-wall funding, which is one of the most egregious attempts to violate the separation of powers in American history. Of course that is still too many. It would be constitutionally wrong for any purpose. To say that 84% of Republicans who watch FoX News Channel support such a border wall through emergency powers is extremely shocking.
Emergency powers? That is one of the first demands of any new dictator, whether Lenin, Hitler, or Pinochet.
FoX News Channel is a training ground not so much for conservatism, as the difference in voting for Republicans for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives is much the same (88% versus 95%) and even the recognition that mainstream American media have a liberal bias (76% of Republicans as non-viewers of FoX as opposed to 89% of Republicans who watch FoX News), as it is a training ground for totalitarianism.
One question is on how much Donald Trump has achieved as President. Believing that he has achieved more in two years than any prior President, including the President who defined the Presidency (Washington), made the Louisiana Purchase (Jefferson), presided over the annexation of what are now Texas and California and lands in between (Polk), a President who won a war against secession and got slavery abolished (Lincoln), presided over the strongest reform package between Lincoln and FDR, the President who took twelve years to get America out of depression and doom the two most dangerous and demonic enemies that America ever had (FDR, of course), Eisenhower with his Interstate Highway system that has changed the way we Americans get around, LBJ with his Great Society programs, ... even Obama got us Obamacare which may have saved my life, and who probably put the fear of America into international terrorists by whacking Osama bin Laden.
I can understand conservatives believing Donald Trump a good President, largely for sharing their political values; such explains that 71% of all Republicans who don't watch FoX News approve of the president (That low number is horrid for any Republican pol, but that is a different story. Maybe that low number is about such things as the emergency powers and being willing to let the Mueller investigation take its course. Trump is undeniably right-wing on economic and social values. Falling for the personality cult of Donald Trump suggests a contempt for democracy as would falling for the personality cult of someone like the late Fidel Castro.
By the way -- non-Republicans who watch FoX News are much more likely than non-Republicans who do not watch FoX News to fall for the totalitarian tendencies of Trump supporters.
Voting Republican is not fascistic. Believing that any President deserves or needs emergency powers to circumvent the budgetary process is anti-democratic.
50% of Republican voters who do not watch FoX News agree that the President was right to declare a national emergency to get border-wall funding, which is one of the most egregious attempts to violate the separation of powers in American history. Of course that is still too many. It would be constitutionally wrong for any purpose. To say that 84% of Republicans who watch FoX News Channel support such a border wall through emergency powers is extremely shocking.
Emergency powers? That is one of the first demands of any new dictator, whether Lenin, Hitler, or Pinochet.
FoX News Channel is a training ground not so much for conservatism, as the difference in voting for Republicans for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives is much the same (88% versus 95%) and even the recognition that mainstream American media have a liberal bias (76% of Republicans as non-viewers of FoX as opposed to 89% of Republicans who watch FoX News), as it is a training ground for totalitarianism.
One question is on how much Donald Trump has achieved as President. Believing that he has achieved more in two years than any prior President, including the President who defined the Presidency (Washington), made the Louisiana Purchase (Jefferson), presided over the annexation of what are now Texas and California and lands in between (Polk), a President who won a war against secession and got slavery abolished (Lincoln), presided over the strongest reform package between Lincoln and FDR, the President who took twelve years to get America out of depression and doom the two most dangerous and demonic enemies that America ever had (FDR, of course), Eisenhower with his Interstate Highway system that has changed the way we Americans get around, LBJ with his Great Society programs, ... even Obama got us Obamacare which may have saved my life, and who probably put the fear of America into international terrorists by whacking Osama bin Laden.
I can understand conservatives believing Donald Trump a good President, largely for sharing their political values; such explains that 71% of all Republicans who don't watch FoX News approve of the president (That low number is horrid for any Republican pol, but that is a different story. Maybe that low number is about such things as the emergency powers and being willing to let the Mueller investigation take its course. Trump is undeniably right-wing on economic and social values. Falling for the personality cult of Donald Trump suggests a contempt for democracy as would falling for the personality cult of someone like the late Fidel Castro.
By the way -- non-Republicans who watch FoX News are much more likely than non-Republicans who do not watch FoX News to fall for the totalitarian tendencies of Trump supporters.
Voting Republican is not fascistic. Believing that any President deserves or needs emergency powers to circumvent the budgetary process is anti-democratic.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.