Why Fox News is Popular

Lies are designed to be popular. Hence Fox News.

By Dan Hagen

Fox News is popular for the same reason similar "news" was once popular in Germany, Italy and Spain.

Lies are always more popular than the truth, because lies, unlike the truth, are DESIGNED to be popular.

Fox News fans are victims of an organized and relentless fascist propaganda crusade against fact and education that demonizes the people who want to help them and deifies the people who intend them harm.

They have been told they can return to a state of affairs that never existed, a time when kindly, unregulated, untaxed corporations generously looked out for their employees, when no one needed health care, when black people and women were happy to stay in their places, when gay people didn't exist, when ordinary Americans regularly became billionaires by climbing up their own bootstraps and when Jesus ruled America.

Little House on the Prairie meets Hopalong Cassidy meets Atlas Shrugged.

Because that can never, ever happen, and because they think they will never, ever need to learn anything more than they already know, they are perpetually frustrated and hopping mad.