@edgarblythe,
Quote: But is four years a long enough period?
That would depend on a number of factors differing in different situations. In the case we are looking at, no, four years has been not nearly enough.
There's a fundamental foundation to almost every aspect of right wing propaganda we've been witnessing for decades now. That is the promulgation of the idea that the mainstream media is so biased in favor of Dems that a separate media system needs to exist as a matter of fairness and truth discovery. And not only does it need to exist and operate, but most anything it does or any extremes it reaches deserves to be excused because of the size and mendacity of MS media.
And a core belief that has been fostered here is that "the MS media can't be trusted to tell you the truth". This core belief is what has captured millions of Americans in a closed bubble of information (very often, misinformation).
I don't know how America fixes this. It might not. But we can at least better understand what's going on.
