CBS is participating in the consolidation of fascism in the U.S.
Now, CBS has closed down Colbert, the late show.
https://prospect.org/culture/2025-07-23-canceling-colbert-begins-end-of-television
These are classic steps in the consolidation of fascism. Get some super rich to assist the consolidation by promising the profitable deals.
We, the resistance , must respond. We must force CBS to rejoin the free press. If not, their example will be followed by hundreds of smaller stations, networks, etc.
The consolidation of media power leads to losing elections and losing our freedoms.
Has anyone seen a significant explanation, or a realistic proposal for resistance ? Please share.
As I argued last October when DSA national basically sat out the election;
If we don’t fight now, after consolidation of power, the fight will be much harder, longer, and more difficult to survive. I am seeking alternatives.
Anand Giridharadas , and the substack The Ink, think that the direction must be to consolidate a new, democratic media based upon substacks. That is one idea. But, more is needed.
Is there a way we can do to CBS, when the Tesla boycott did to Tesla ?
Nazi Germany. 1940
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
This quote is attributed to a prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller.
After World War II, Niemöller openly spoke about his own early complicity in Nazism and his eventual change of heart. He was imprisoned. His powerful words about guilt and responsibility still resonate today.
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