My baby brother was Executive Editor of the Dallas Morning News for many years, runs the St Louis Post Dispatch now. Declining subscription rates and layoffs are a way of life for him. But he doesn’t seem to get how truly despised the press and media are—doesn’t seem to link leftist bias with why so many newspapers are struggling.
He knows where I stand and actually is not a loud mouth braying liberal at family gatherings. His wife, a professional Latina “victim”, is a different story—a loud mouth uninformed braying liberal, and she’s been really mad at me lately. I am a take-no- prisoners Trump supporter, she literally thinks I’m going to hell LMAO.
Your brother's mindset is emblematic of what's wrong with the entire political left. Its why so many of them are shocked that Trump won the election. Its why they continue to double down on the same tired socialist, liberal policies, even as they lose elections from the presidency, down to the local council level. Its why their rhetoric sounds like something from a college anarchist movement from the 1970s.
These people have completely shut themselves off from observation of, and direct communication with, anyone who doesn't live in their twisted alternate universe. That goes double for the real world, which they seem to studiously ignore. How else could someone believe that global warming is the greatest threat to human existence, while openly welcoming invading hordes of foreigners who hate your guts and want to see you dead?
Like all liberals, it seems your brother is unwilling to honestly inform himself of the exact causes of conditions that are destroying his world. No, it's much better to analyze everything in life through the filter of your left-liberal, utopian world view.
That's why they fail, and will continue to fail, unless and until they find their way out.