OPINION: ''Reform if you would preserve,' Theodore Roosevelt warned with the Robber Barons on his doorstep. His advice was never more apt than today,' writes regular Star contributor Terry Bracy.
The rules that govern baseball are in for a radical change in the 2023 season. Why? Desperation.
When JFK rode through my St. Louis neighborhood during the 1960 campaign, middle-class homes emptied as residents raced to get a peek at the Democratic candidate; Beatlemania before the Beatles. Seven in 10 Americans at the time, according to Pew Research, believed the U.S. government could be trusted to do the right thing. A decade later, their sons and daughters were in the streets protesting the Vietnam War, still believing that the intrinsic righteousness of the American ethic would prevail.
In the year Speaker Kevin McCarthy was born, Congress passed the landmark Voting Rights Act. With his feckless misunderstanding of our history, he has spent much of his career trying to destroy it. Across the street at the Supreme Court, the conservative majority has defeated any attempt to curb skyrocketing campaign spending which is now in the billions, massive portions of which flow from unidentified donors.
When cable TV arrived, Congress was convinced by men like Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch that this new technology should be treated as a utility, placing them outside the purview of the FCC. Small audiences grew into huge partisan forces that reshaped the electorate into warring tribal entities. Its twin brother was hate radio headlined by Rush Limbaugh, who spewed an hours-long gospel of daily lies. Today, Fox News is the intellectual and emotional lodestar for a radicalized GOP.
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