I had been dismayed over the language spoken on the US Cable channels, especially at Fox in recent years. The language is often rowdy, sarcasm was everywhere, facts were twisted, and used selectively. The hosts never had intellectuals on their shows. Probably they are not smart enough to handle them.
I could never think of the best way to describe it, till, I heard President Biden called it, what it is. It's an uncivil war.
Sadly, the FNC's hosts (Hannity, Ingraham, Hilton, and Carlson), have huge followings. I wonder why these people can't be charged for hate speech?
They even throw doubt on the hard work the scientists do or have done. They have seeded doubts on the merits of vaccinations. This is what the Taliban did in Afghanistan against polio vaccinations. I wonder how Fox hosts differed from the Taliban. I like to see the companies producing the vaccines take them to court - just the way the Voting Machine manufacturers did to them to shut them up.
Now the race is on to take credit. The Trumpians want to take credit for vaccines being available in less than a year in the USA. Wonder how long it took for the Chinese, British, Indians, and Russians to produce the vaccines, and distribute them around the world? Will the Trumpians take credit for all of that too? It is the hard work of scientists, and the investments various governments made resulted in the vaccines being available within a year. The USA, just like many other governments made the investment. Good on them.
Australians invested in four projects and brought one to a close because the results were poor. That's what science is all about. Discovery through educated trials (expect errors too)! Our space programs failed - Appolo 13 crashed miserably. The whole world mourned. No one criticized the scientists, Thank god, there was no Fox those days.
I hope the Americans wake up on their own. The trouble instigator in chief has been isolated, at least for now. Hope he stays that way and the uncivil war ends soon. The world can do away with the nastiness of the past four years.
