Stupid and Contagious

Bezos has a net worth of $223 billion. He owns the Washington Post and could easily keep that newsroom healthy and funded for a century without breaking a sweat. Instead, he drove the paper's editorial slant further right, put a bunch of gargantuan losers in charge, began publishing lazy class agitprop, and then fired 300 journalists to compensate for a mass reader exodus. Bezos recently fired all of the paper’s black opinion columnists, censored a cartoonist that criticized him, and proudly announced the paper's op-ed section would now be a safe space for corporatist race and class agitprop, equal parts cultural misinformation and lazy engagement trolling. He decided, in all of his business savvy, to create a newspaper full of weird sycophants that panders primarily to the deep delusions of ethically-disoriented rich right wing trust fund boys. A paper very few people actually want to read. He's selling you dead and dying narratives in pathetic service to unpopular kings. You're going to see a lot of this sort of thing in the months to come. Especially as Trump's incontinence soars, his political power wanes, and the policy world increasingly tries to envision what comes next. What Bezos and friends don't want is this golden age of corruption and bigotry to usher forth a violent pendulum swing toward good faith popular progressive reform.