Well, as of today the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-formally-shuts-down-1236464653/
Yet another sad day for America because of a joke of an administration that wants America to be a sad place for anyone who isn't a cishet white male billionaire.
To simply repeat what I said over on Era, no administration in American history has done more damage to America itself than the Trump administration. Trump is a man who doesn't believe in governance. Like all other Republicans, he believes state power, as it pertains to economic policy, exists solely to benefit the capitalist class, and that anything that benefits the general public must therefore be eliminated. They don't believe in government services, because that doesn't help the bottom line of the publicly-traded corporations that fund their election campaigns. Everything must exist to generate a profit.
Also, they believe any media that doesn't explicitly toe the GOP party line is the enemy. They have been at odds with NPR and PBS since their inceptions precisely because it's not biased towards them, which as far as they're concerned means it's biased against them. And they clearly just hate education in general, because they want a population of easily-duped suckers incapable of rational or critical thought. They are after all a political party that lives at odds with physical reality and thinks most of science and history are part of some evil communist plot... or at least they expect their base to believe that. Everything from creationism to anti-vaxxers to Lost Causers demonstrates quite well how much they hate facts. Also, Sesame Street taught not just the ABC's and 123's but also, horror of horrors, kindness and empathy, which is apparently considered "woke" these days. They want PBS replaced by Prager U.
We've recovered from other presidencies before, but given the current political climate it's hard to imagine much of what he's destroyed getting fully restored in our lifetimes. Even when the Dems eventually retake power (assuming we still have free and fair elections), any attempt to restore things back to the state they were will probably just be met with more obstructionism from the GOP, and the Democrats will be too cowardly to go nuclear and abolish the filibuster and make everything amenable to being passed by a simple majority. I suppose the budget reconciliation process could be used to make these things passable by a simple majority, but the moment the GOP regains power they'll just overturn everything the Democrats passed. Because the GOP is fueled by pure spite and a desire to destroy the few things that actually make America a semi-decent place to live.
They're not just in it to make money. They're in it to hurt people. Because fascists are always actively malicious in everything they do.
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