The warning bell keeps clanging.

[catherder@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
The 2016 result gave me and my friends that wake up call. For a long time, we were just horrified at the level of success the Rs had had in dumbing down America.

[josephmeyer@c.im]

@wdlindsy
As always, thanks for your great threads. I am exhausted and stressed at this point, having a hard time imagining how much more stress I will feel if Trump wins, and just hoping a majority of US voters will choose to save our democracy.

[philip_cardella@historians.social]

@wdlindsy too often South Africa gets more of a pass than people in the US want to believe.

The apartheid regime was absolutely fascist. We chose to side with them anyway. So our view of history, despite arguably the largest civil rights movement in history to end apartheid goes a little soft, imho, on just how evil that regime was.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy That was before the fat cats realized how much more money there is in platforming rather than reporting. It costs nothing to stick a mic in front of "the man on the street," and ad sales go up when you do it.

What we need is a society that values something other than shareholder return.

[wobweger@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
thanks for the coverage
quite impressive

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Up in Heaven,the Chandler family that once owned the Times and whitewashed coverage and politics for generations is cheering.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Pussy-grabbing should have been the breaking point for the GOP.

[phaedral@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Whatever it would say about our country has already been said by the fact that he was elected once already and that he's considered a viable candidate despite his treason and Nazism and taste for sexual predation.

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@wdlindsy He says "baked into the election results" but he means "if he wins, Trump gets a mandate." And buyer beware.

[mirishuli@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Sam Donaldson. I miss him every day.

[ajaykaul10@vmst.io]

@wdlindsy Exactly. Nixon made to look like a lamb.

https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/113/364/587/682/326/119/original/aa84172d8025650e.jpg

[nanowiz@vmst.io]

@ajaykaul10 @wdlindsy
hella

[blackburied@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy go back even further when a single reporter, Ed Murrow, had the faith and trust of an entire nation and could expose McCarthy to the country.

In re-watching this, the horrible realization that McCarthy was nowhere near as bad a slimeball as #trump

[abelle@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy I grew up watching Walter Cronkite! I don’t think we ever missed an evening of news.

[thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza]

@wdlindsy I grew up hearing "and that's the way it is" when he finished each night.

[davidmiller@masto.ai]

@wdlindsy look, if they couldn't stay off the train after January 6th why should we expect a little Hitler envy to get them off the Trump train?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@davidmiller I don't read any of the commentators in the thread to be imagining that those cultists will jump from the Trump train. That's not why they're sounding the alarm. They're sounding it because it's the right thing to do.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@thomastraynor Same here. We often listened to him as we ate our family supper in silence; our table for everyday meals (as distinguished from holiday meals in the dining room) was in our den in front of the t.v. He shaped my idea of what a good, honorable journalist is all about!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Abelle Same for my family. Ditto for Roger Mudd and Dan Rather.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@blackburied Yes, good points, valuable history for us to remember now.