I don't get it. So, as far as I can see, this programming is kind of just pure flattery to us liberals. It's like the programming is some sort of church where we would go for comfort. But I already have priests and psychologists, so I don't need television to help me believe my beliefs. So I don't get it. Why do we fund a station that is simply just my own political party. I mean, I donate to liberals, sure, but they're politicians. I don't see why I should donate to a corporation that just funds NPR, PBS and other outlets which are just the Democratic Party. I mean, the Democratic party serves a purpose, and so I understand that we need it; and I'm glad they help fund my Social Security and Medicare. That's good. But I still don't get it. I mean, so I understand we're not Republicans, but if all your shows are just about my own wish list of ideas, that's nothing very challenging. I'm living the Bay Area, so if I needed 24/7 reinforcement for my belief in Medicaid and Section 8 housing, you're in luck, I already get that 24/7 for free. Plus, here in the liberal capital of the world where I live, BLM and MeToo and LGBTQ Diversity is pumping through all portals 24/7-365 without end; so why do we need to actually give money to get more of what we're already just almost drowning in an ocean of. One's own ideas are like love. Love and my thinking are both good, but 24/7-365 flattery of me is not really needed, and no adult should need that. Your programming throughout COVID and BLM and MeToo and Russia Collusion, etc., was all like children's programming. I get it. I don't like Trump either, and you don't either. I get it. But the broadcasting was so simplistic and so soft and meek and asexual and bland and unchallenging that it was just utterly lifeless. I think our people, and I include you in our people a on the progressive spectrum with us all, are somehow losing our minds and becoming weirdly cringeworthy. It's to where the virtue signaling and constant reassurances and tender handling of our feelings — it's just to the point of cloying beyond madness. I think what you did, as well as all my usual media outlets, was just be such control freaks that you basically sent everyone running for the hills; and now no one trusts you; and I can't even quote your stories to my conservative friends because no one other than woke, coastal, control-freak women believe you anymore. Even my fellow progressive men are all fleeing to the other side, in terms of media. Please stop funding NPR and PBS. I know I won't fund CPB or NPR or PBS anymore, not till some kind of actual human life returns to them.
Even Progressives Like Me Don't Get Why We Fund You
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