Fox News goes off the rails

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“Why do people still love him?”

Why do the Fox hosts so willingly lie for him?”

“Why are GOP Senators and Congresspeople throwing their lives away for him?”

These are questions I see asked all the time. These questions blossom on Twitter. They’re on internet message boards. They’re all over. People — many people — are puzzled by it all. So let’s break it all down. First off, the Fox folks — the more demented ones, including almost all of them — care about one thing. That is profitability.

Believe me, if Trump’s approval ratings went down to 5%, you would see a great big giant pivot from the non-news pundits. But right now, it’s selling. Their audiences eat this stuff up.

The reason they do so is that they are programmed. Their minds are no longer their own. Most of the viewers’ minds have been tinkered with and curated. They have been lovingly shaped and designed by propaganda artists who do not give a damn about them but know that keeping their empty eyes glued to Fox screens will pour unlimited money into their coffers.

Go back in time to the first battles. Nearly every battle in the history of battles was fought for only a few reasons. Money is one. Power is another. Power is the ultimate in war provocation. It always has been, and it always will be.

And the folks who watch this stuff — the “eyes of Fox” are themselves angry. Anger feeds off anger and can bring out the worst in both of the mad parties. And there is one more thing. Some of the Fox audience likely know they’re in the wrong. They likely know and do not care.

The reason for this is that they have surrendered their souls. They have allowed the wizards to turn them into robots –human machines who think nothing, feel nothing, and do nothing — unless, of course, it “owns the libs.”

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