I have noticed a disturbing trend in Fox entertainment shows. And that's MAGA 'Conservative' propaganda driving the plots and presentation of their action shows.
I just happened to catch a good snatch of it in their Fox lifeguard show.
The lifeguard heroes, midwestern white-bread, living the stereotypical Conservative American hero life, rescue weird people doing stupid things.
There's nothing wrong with midwestern white-bread heroes doing great hero things. Everyone deserves to be a hero, whitebread midwesterners included.
But when those white-bread heroes spend their time rescuing weird people doing stupid things, and complain about wanting a nice ordinary life, a red flag goes up.
Look at those stupid Liberals with their idiotic fantasies of daring to be different.
Then, later on in the episode, the lifeguards are trained by an angry millitary guy who abuses them with angry lip in the name of training, without doing any training himself or demonstrating anything, and 15 seconds later one of the lifeguards who was taking lip from this guy tells a bystander, oh, no, he's a nice guy, he's just training us.
I mean, how blatent can you get!
The creative people who are weird are stupid, and need rescuing, the whitebread heroes wish for an ordinary life, and Mr. Angry here is the 'oh, he's a nice guy, he's just training us'???
Why don't you just scream out, 'You're supposed to be angry, you idiot Hippie! Your niceness and diversity is destroying the world!'
My God! How blatant can propaganda get!
Don't listen to Fox
Be nice to people!
Embrace diversity! Dare to be different!
Because the old Soviet Union shows us where angry conformity gets you!
Lifeless fear and living death!
Joseph Stalin pushed that kind of anger and fear and discipline so much that even the Communist leaders backed off after he died!
I'm not saying that Conservatives are fascists, but most voting Republicans among the American public are not angry disciplinarians either, at least not to extremes!
And the American public, on either side, has never been served well by big corperations, at least not in the past 30 years or so!
Fox would't dare push it as far as Stalin pushed it, but Fox has no clue how dangerously they are pushing it, just because all American non-comedy scripted mainstream television right now (early 2025) is so dark, angry, and toxic!
They simply do not know what they are doing, and it does matter what values that storytelling teaches!
I apologize for getting angry. I really do.
I just want you, the public, to be respected, served well, and taught decent values.
There is absolutely no reason that a Conservative American point of view can't teach good values.
The songs of George Strait did.
But that Fox episode certainly was not teaching responsibly.
What a massive change from when King of the Hill, which represented both sides of America so well in such an intelligent way, was one of their signature shows!
I just want you to be aware of what it seems that Fox is doing right now.
If I'm wrong, great.
If Fox goes back to something more closely resembling a George Strait song, great. It's fine to represent a Conservative point of view.
I hope that I have not offended anyone. I just had to say something.
I'm sorry for being angry! I don't like to be negative!
God loves you! Live your life and be happy!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson