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GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Ratings for Game 1 of the World Series Crash 25%, Viewership at All-Time Low. ?

By Glenn Reynolds

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Ratings for Game 1 of the World Series Crash 25%, Viewership at All-Time Low. A friend on Facebook comments: “I think millions of people discovered that their addiction to sport was a habit, and that habit has now been broken. I had no idea until two minutes ago that the World Series had even begun. That has never happened in my life. I haven’t watched the NFL or the NBA all year.”

America’s institutions are run by people who care more about the opinion of their social peers than the well-being of the instutitions with which they have been entrusted. They don’t really care if they go broke, so long as they get credit for being woke. This is a fundamental breach of duty on their part, akin to the taking of bribes, but they no longer believe in duty anyway.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 22, 2020 (boomark / email).