Right-wing shock jocks influence Americans more than the ‘corporate media’

“TWO nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy,” is how Disraeli described the rich/poor divide in Britain, and could just as easily mean America mere days before we find out if they elect more of the corrupt corporate same, or go wildly off piste with the mad orange one, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Despite this being the loudest, lewdest, vilest political brawl in living memory, both candidates are largely symbolic: — one symbolises business as usual, the other symbolises mass disillusionment with business as usual.

Because the Deplorables can’t all be deplorable; they can’t all be swivel-eyed KKK-sympathising illiterates. There are simply too many: 40% of the [white] electorate, or 60 million Americans are so fed up with the way their country is run that they are prepared to vote for someone mad as a box of frogs. The election is “rigged”, he tells them; his opponent’s most powerful weapon is “the corporate media” who “no longer are interested in journalism” but have “a total political agenda”.