re: #276 Justanotherhuman

Page it!

Baldwin is well known, having run for President and all, and being friends of Ron Paul.

The White-Right is full of people like him, all Godly and such in their atavism.

The problem I see is that few people in the major media outlets really want to tackle the connection between people like Baldwin and elected politicians like Rand Paul. The systemic issue of religio-nationalism in America is not high on the to-do list of corporate media, even though the connection between religion and nationalism and identity-dynamics (such as racism) lie beneath so much we do as a society that do make the headlines (like the wars we choose to execute.) Despite the claims of Baldwin and his ilk, the media doesn’t want much to do with them. It’s not a field of inquiry that gets eyes-on-product. Sure, Bill Moyers might do an episode on PBS, but that’s about it.

During the run-up to an election a few specialty programs, like Rachel Maddow, will look at the loony-right in this country, but don’t expect too much from the outlets which the other 98% of Americans are watching/reading.

Even though Congressional deadlock is due in part to the entrenched immobility in the GOP about making decisions on national merit, as so many of the GOP candidates find themselves in the business of courting the fringe in their own districts, pretty much what is covered is the GOP big name funders (e.g., the Kochs), but not the foot-soldiers in the districts, all too many of whom buy in the various atavistic beliefs out there.