Stephen Colbert and friends should buy media outlets

[AZJonnie]

2. Yep, and I imagine when the final story of Earth's 6th mass extinction is written in 500 years

that very thing will be part of the story, along with basically everyone having an internet-connected phone in arms reach at all times.

For democracy to really work, there needs to be a foundation of common truth, and it needs to be a lot accurate than what we have now. The tie-in here being that a lack of a common truth is a huge driver of inaction on climate change, AND the destruction of democracy. In the end the result be a world ruled by rapacious billionaires and corporations, and the world's governments not being able stop the destruction because they simply lack the power to do so. Private actors are usurping them in part by circumventing any controls on the dissemination of their self-serving propaganda.