Thread by @JYSexton

All the corporations and cable news channels and personalities know climate change is a real and pressing problem, just like they all got vaccinated and lied about it. The whole point is there’s an opportunity for profit and power by selling denial to an audience desperate for it

The denial of unquestionable problems and realities is worth billions in advertising and products and the only means of winning elections for an antidemocratic, authoritarian movement whose only pursuit is protecting white, patriarchal, oligarchic power.

What Fox and other operations like it do is sell a fantasy reality to its consumers that they don’t actually believe. It’s make believe performance for almost all of them except for the wild-eyed true believers, and the grifters are more than happy to work with them.

This fascist, white supremacist threat is also a consumer movement dedicated to perpetuating dangerous delusions and absurd mythologies. The businesses that sell this garbage are perpetuating an alternate reality tailored to that consumer class and radicalizing them.

Again, the free market is rewarding and accelerating violence and authoritarianism because it is, by design, amoral and unethical. It will not only create conditions for destruction but profit wildly from it.

This is what the GOP is.

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As politics was completely captured by the wealthy, political identity largely became a consumer phenomenon. The GOP, MAGA, and this authoritarian movement is as much an expression of a consumer identity as a political movement. It happens simultaneously.

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Right Wing/MAGA fascism is both performance and reality, playing off one another and mixing until performance becomes ideology. The media and political ecosystem is profiting from this and ensuring it only gets worse and worse. It’s a grift that becomes real.