HAS PARTISAN MEDIA JOURNALISM KILLED USA’s DEMOCRACY?
The right to democratic liberty has died a slow death over the last 17 months of this U.S. Presidential Campaign. The amassed and orchestrated media overage by NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, the U.S. BBC, and FOX has tried to assassinate Donald Trump, but in the process mortally wounded U.S. Democracy and shot itself in the foot.
Its newscasts, political commentators, strategists, psychologists and news anchors have all been suborned to save America, but they have together unwittingly provided the last nail in the coffin of liberty. Its long endangered democratic process breathed its last gasp and it is only a matter of time before final rigor mortis causes its final seizure.
The watching remnant (saints) will already have turned in their Bibles to read the prophesied description of democracy’s demise in St. Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians (chapter two). It summed up the media campaign, which ironically eclipsed the candidate’s own campaigns.
Big media, suborned by billions of underhand Wall Street dollars (on top of the official billions it legally earned) may have provoked a tumultuous unwarranted public response like that in France in 1798. That galloping movement of protest bolted down the highway with its careering carriage (Hopeful Democracy) finally overturning in irretrievable ruin.
This was the outcome too of the Roman Empire reigning as a superpower from 146 BC to the 4th century AD. When media oligopolies ruthlessly take command trying to reign in their own conspired right the outcome can well be the same as took place in 18th C France and 4th C Rome.
Prolonged manipulation of public sentiment by Big Brother in league with state hierarchy is a dangerous course to be taken in any era. The annals of history are littered with the results of such an incendiary device of controlling the masses for its own gain. 18th C France, 16th C and 20th C Germany, 17th C Britain is just to mention a few.
In the next 24 hours the future of not just one state, but fifty states hangs in the balance and that balance may possibly be upset by a just a few handfuls of ignorant neglect. Then in paralyzed hindsight the citizens of that fair Union will belatedly remember the proverb “you are weighed in the balances and found wanting,”
Marshall McLuhan and Jacques Ellul saw this day coming, but sooner than they, and other literati like them, had anticipated.
