by John Rixey

Created on: August 14, 2010

America is changing, as it always has. We have elected a brown President, more states are legalizing medicinal marijuana, new internet media is replacing old, trusted media sources, minority populations are increasing to the point that they may conceivably one day not be minorities, people seem more tolerant of homosexuality, abortion, socialist ideas, and religions like Islam. Many Americans see these things as progress, or at least as changes that will one day lead to a more peaceful nation. However, the Fox News audience, the most elderly audience of any cable news channel, has a different perspective. 

Imagine you have lived a long life, full of achievements and disappointments. You've lived through several wars and the sixties and you ARE America. You are the patriotism. You are the dream of the founding fathers. And now, despite all your efforts, it appears you will soon die. Boisterous minorities drive slowly down your street playing loud urban music. There's talk about the brown President forming "death panels." The enemy you thought you defeated - communism - is now infiltrating the government of this one-great nation. Imagine it - you're on the last leg of your life and instead of leaving behind the America of your glorious childhood, your triumphant early adulthood, and your productive life, it appears all of your patriotism will be lost in the ethnic socialist dystopia outside your living room window.

The success of Fox News is the fear of change - and the biggest change for us all is the impending death that is now facing the elderly Fox News audience. For Fox News viewers, it is not just a personal death, but a national death. Because every generation has had little faith in the next, to the elderly Fox News audience it appears the nation is being left in the hands of morons. To them, it is clear that the nation is about to crumble. This is the fear of helplessness, loss, and above all, death.

Fox News is the caring in-home nurse that pacifies her dying clients with kind empathy - "That's right. The country is going straight to hell without you. These kids today are all mixed-race socialists. You were right about America all along. Founding Fathers. That's what it's all about. Now just relax. Yes, yes - that's right. Without you, America is nothing."

And if media enterprise has anything to do with it, our generation, too, will have a sweet, hot nurse to tell us all about how awful the country will be without us.

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