CMV: Until we turn off the billionaire, right wing propaganda hate hose pretending to be "news" in the U.S., we won't see progress.
I'm a Millennial. Over the last couple decades, most journalist integrity in our mainstream media has almost disappeared. Particularly on the right with Fox News, News Nation, right wing radio, OAN, and others propagating hate speech and other anti-science propaganda as "news." The liberal (or left, though we barely have it) media outlet response is often to sane-wash or downplay severity of just how bad the right wing has gotten and the vitriol they say.
There is a reason the Nazis went after the media so hard and filled it with hateful and anti-leftist propaganda. It's the same reason Musk took over Twitter (and pressured other social media owners to loosen hate speech restriction), the Trump admin defunded PBS, is bullying ABC, and countless others of legacy media and newer, informal media alike. They need the hate hose to survive to do their atrocities and to make people blame the wrong people.
Yet, most liberal leaders rarely bring up that we need to stop oligarch, right wing media funding because they are: 1) often owned by the same wealthy corporations and/or oligarchs; and 2) are afraid to look like they are against free speech. On #1 they need to fight or be replaced with someone who will. On #2, they need to know many countries have free speech that exists somewhere in the many options between "Nazis and oligarchs get to buy all the airwaves" and "Stalinist State Media Fever Dream." They should research and fight for such options.
If we don't get this fixed, we will always have a hate hose (and otherwise anti-equity hose) filling people's brains with the propaganda that got us here.