>>212914646It may be all self-serving. Greedy influencers and comics and public personalities and certainly tech companies want to align themselves with an unapologetic right wing movement that has no concerns for regulation or law or justice or decency or democracy to increase their earnings and put them in the seat of power.
Fascism is good for business if you toe the line. Popular podcasts became tribal and divisive years ago. Now they may be in the position to become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti-democratic government.
Hopefully, it goes the other way and tolerance and diversity can breathe and inch forward but who knows?
Iโm trying to remain a realist and live my life and do the things that keep the existential crisis this all seems to bring out of me at bay.
Try to realize that you donโt have to annihilate yourself in the face of cultural annihilation. Hold onto who you are and try not to be afraid to live your truth in the midst of an avalanche of toxic bullshit.
https://www.wtfpod.com/dispatches/the-democratic-idea