“I wonder if the press might get tired of being the laugh track for the Biden Show and being manipulated by the Administration and start doing their jobs.”
I’ve been wondering that for fifty years.. looks like the answer is no.
There are a few with the courage and moral decency to speak the truth - but for them the punishment is severe - and many of them eventually choose the path of least resistance.
I have to say I can hardly blame them. Peer pressure can be very powerful - and the Left’s brand of peer pressure is not the garden variety - it is a vicious strain that will rip you to shreds without giving it a second thought.
Here’s my story:
Four years ago I had hundreds of “friends” on Facebook - including many actual friends from childhood, school, various work places, and other shared interests.
Some were current friends and others voices from the past that I became reacquainted with through Facebook. Sure, there were a bunch who turned out to be too Leftist and too outspoken about it - so I unfriended the most annoying of them - and I spent less time on FB and avoided political discussions.
In the last four years though, I couldn’t resist speaking out a few times because the hypocrisy was too much for me.
One time they were ridiculing President Trump for having orange skin, saying awful things about Melania including making fun of her accent and implying she was a prostitute.... I said “Wait - I thought you Democrats were against this sort of thing... all this hate, all this focus on a person’s appearance, the color of their skin, their foreign accent - why is all this hating and shaming and intolerance suddenly OK with you?
For saying that I brought down an avalanche of Holy Hell upon myself.. I got such a golly of tongue lashings that I literally deleted my Facebook account and never went back - and that was no big loss - but I also lost a lot of friends - or people I thought were my friends.
The sad part is that this fall will be my 50th high school class reunion - I don’t know how many people will show up given covid - but because of this FB “falling out” I find myself kind of dreading it.
And that is just peer pressure in my fake FB world - where speaking your mind is optional. I can only imagine what it’s like working in the media - being surrounded by vicious Leftists - having your salary paid by vicious Leftists... and yet being in a profession where the right thing to do is speak the truth...
Sounds like a nightmare - like I said - I can’t really blame them if they either buckle under or quit... if I was in that profession I think I would have quit long ago.
All my FB friends are conservative. We were all HS classmates. I havea about 20 of them. We all graduated in the early to mid 70s.