3 Comments

I have understood hell to be the absence of God! But I am not theologically-inclined...

Expand full comment

“The US isn’t a democracy; it’s a republic.”

I've heard that line mostly from the FOX consumer types. I think that there are certain words and phrases that get repeated over and over on that channel that then bleed into the public sphere. It's similar to followers of a cult.

Which isn't to say that MSNBC has been above that (i.e. with referring to Trump and his supporters as "weird" in the past election season).

Expand full comment

Yeah, in the past decade that has been the most common part of the landscape it comes from.

Expand full comment