Part 4 - Failed State

Part 4 - When politicians lie - Democracy dies.
It should be clear to everyone that the US is a failed state with what has happened there in the last few days, weeks and months. Four plus years of Trump's utter incompetence and never-ending self-serving lies enabled by the billionaire press and social media owners. Let's hope that President Biden manages to reverse the worst of the ills and corruption and brings back proper democratic government. Until we break the billionaire moguls of the press and social media that are spewing out the lies 24/7 on the likes of Fox news it's difficult to see how things can change much. And in a society that is so entrenched and invested on one side or the other that if you see the light and change sides it means you lose all your 'friends'.

Here in the UK Johnson and the Tory party are busy following the Trump playbook enabled by the same Murdoch press stoking racist division. And soon we will have not one but two new TV news channels pumping out the far-right views of our corrupt government. Even without that it is amazing to me that the Tories are leading in the polls. I can't put it better than the eloquent  George Monbiot and so I suggest you take ten minutes out of your day and watch his excellent video here.
And what is the solution? Simple really - we need a vaccine for the gullible as much as we need a vaccine for Covid.