This morning, as I was doing my first media survey looking for trend data I came across this article about Charlies Kirk, a prominent MAGAt spokesperson. I paid attention to it because a few days ago I had published a remarkably stupid comment he had made about the 2nd Amendment. As I was reading this, I had CNN on the television screen on my desk and heard the story about a 6-year-old girl and her father who were both shot by a MAGAt cretin next door when their basketball rolled into his yard. They then went on to mention the black teenager shot when he knocked on a MAGAts door, the cheerleader shot in a grocery store parking lot when she went to the wrong girl, and the young woman who was murdered when she pulled into a driveway to turn around — something  I have done countless times. It left me thinking about how we got this sick. Certainly, it is the number of guns, but they’re just the instruments, it is the consciousness cultivated in our culture. And who is doing that, Spend an hour watching FOX propaganda and you will get your answer. They push endless commentary about how crime is out of control, most of it is committed by Black or Brown young men, the “libs” are out to get you and destroy your life. It isn’t just that it is all lies, I think, the real issue is the cultivation of fear, racism, and resentment. Fox and the lesser demons of MAGAt media are literally destroying the wellbeing of American culture in order to make great profits.