Once journalism was a respected discipline. Covid put the kibosh on many American professional and cultural habits. Covid single-handedly may have delivered the most severe and dire threat to our democracy in recent history. It was the ultimate Trump card. Just the sight of Trump's hair eerily summons Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un frequented an Iowa football game, where he was booed. In tow with him were his paid MAGA work force traveling on the bus getting paid to support him. The real public have a different reaction. The diversity of democracy and its implied free market are under attack. This freedom to maneuver is what the Communists loathe. So deep and so interesting the evolved palette of freedom is. American Popular Music. Television. Film. More specifically Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Disco, Country and Western, Rockabilly, Gospel, Heavy Metal, Punk, New Wave, Techno, and more. These three things, music, television, and film defined America as a global economic super power. We were good at them. Transplanted Jews who survived Hitler's Holocaust created Hollywood as therapy and solstice for their grief. If we take what is handed us by others, we will perish. To survive and be happy we must use our creativity to seek a more enlightened life. This creativity and thus fulfillment also flourishes in other disciplines, but many of these have become compromised leading up to the Trump Presidency. Doubting science, one humanity, as an excuse for corporate malfeasance is dastardly and disruptive. The reason America cannot get back on track is because environmental pollution of the electronic age has become prolific. The once clean and solid playing field upon which America thrived is mined. There are cataclysmic deterrents at every turn. Covid is one of them, and perhaps it solely is the most severe and dire threat to our democracy in recent history. I believe it came from the Wuhan Labs sanctioned by the United States, and after this deadly pathogen was developed they killed the messengers in true Cold War style. Those lab workers didn't die from an accident. They were murdered to cover the tracks of the instigators. They are the Chinese and us. The line of demarcation between America and communism has grown thin, and with the Trump ploy ridiculous. Communist infiltrators? Science? Global Warming? It's all idle speculation. One only has to look back at Hollywood film to see the truth, and this truth is being sequestered by newly emerging Big Brother. Corporate monopolies who control everything are Big Brother, and they don't have the people in mind. The media has been purchased like everything else (housing, small business, and health care) and they are being told what to do. The only way to thwart this Invasion of the Body Snatchers is to resist the invasion by finding a plural voice representative of the American people. We have lost this voice. This voice once was the Mainstream. This Mainstream was synthesized by America's Popular Music, Television, and Film. Without them, we have no voice. There is no unifying purely American dynamic to our lives anymore. The reason we are in survival mode is because the Earth, our playing field, is sick with Covid. As a population we have been too ill to police the planet, and as we sheltered in place corporate malfeasance thrived. Trump used his four years in the Presidency to shore up the ploy. Science? Global Warming? "It's all a hoax! I'll save you! Trust me!" See where he is now.