I think the award for Rant of the Day should go to Jacob Howland at UnHerd:
The American regime has become a tawdry theatrocracy in which political actors, hypokritai in Greek, play stock characters in a loathsome farce. In the run-up to the 2024 elections, Donald Trump stars as the persecuted saviour, and Joe Biden the righteous defender, of the American republic. Never mind that Trump is self-absorbed and impulsive to the point of criminal stupidity, that Biden is senile and evidently corrupt, and that both of these braying, boorish old men are fraudsters and fabulists. These vices do not matter to their furious followers, who love their man precisely because he is not the hated other. Trump and Biden cannot, and will not, be separated; each needs his opponent as the hammer needs the nail. And above the wretched spectacle sit a click-hungry media, feeding on riot and picking favourites like vulturous pagan gods.
That’s just a snippet. It goes on in a similar vein at some length. If anything I’d say he’s understating the problems.
I for one do not believe that we get the government we deserve. I think we get the government inflicted on us by people trying to gain wealth and power.
I guess I was looking for a better place to insert this comment, but here goes;
Looks to me, especially after reading the history of Paul Manafort, that information today is unnecessarily segregated by paywalls , in the past, copies of the WSJ or the Times were discarded and anyone could read them.
Not so with electronic media.
And please don’t throw Fox at me,
It’s become nothing more than a tabloid.