"On television the political perspectives you see being debated range from MSNBC to Fox News, which for the most part are only superficially distinguishable. They both rally behind the same wars, work to normalize the same neoliberal Walmart economy, and sell viewers the illusion that there’s real political diversity happening within the American one-party Dempublican system. They sustain the illusion of a free market of ideas the way the crooked jewelers in John Steinbeck’s The Pearl conspired to create the illusion of marketplace competition. People watch them argue about how many scoops of ice cream the president got the way WWE spectators watch two actors bodyslamming one another other onto a padded canvass."
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