Originally Posted by Seedvalue View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
He put the "fascist takeover" line in there because emissions laws and such would be gutted by the hardcore right GOP, so there is a logical rationale there for the line.

Yeah there is nothing fascist about the right, and there’s nothing communist about the left. Furthermore most people are in the middle. It’s just the extreme views get the most publicized as news stations understand negativity bias drives ratings.

Divide and conquer the dumb or in this case the semi smart

Conflict drives the ratings, both for television and social media. That's why you get headlines by monetized sites that include words like "slammed." Even something as politically neutral (in theory) as ESPN has been exposed as hyping conflict whenever possible in their shows. There was an announcer recently who exposed the ESPN preferences for strong opinions, even if they were wrong. Wrong was preferable to neutral.