- The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement
Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed.
Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95% of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like “glittering,” “full-hearted,” “wise,” “mighty,” “courageous,” “in complete moral-political union with the people,” etc.
Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:
— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty
— Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor
— Biden's historic victory for America
...Forget that the “impregnable to parody” pol spent the last campaign year
- jamming fingers in the sternums of voters,
- challenging them to pushup contests,
- calling them “lying dog-faced pony soldiers,” and
- forgetting what state he was in.
- Biden, on the day Zoglin ran his piece, couldn’t remember the name of his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin,
- and referred to the Department of Defense as “that outfit over there”...Read all.
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