[paul544]

Why should they? Obama’s on track for reelection. Obviously the majority of American’s are OK with this. So why should they?

[hinckley buzzard]

Given the severe censorship practiced by the media, most Americans have never heard about any of this. If they knew, they might care-- but not necessarily.

The Founding Fathers were clear that representative government depended on an educated and informed electorate. Otherwise, they reasoned, self government was impossible.

This is why they deemed freedom of the press so important. The press was seen as the purveyors of information and analysis in the marketplace of ideas, self correcting in the long run, as any free market.

What they did not foresee was the breaking of the institution by a hostile project such as the Marxist Left. As a result, for the last generation we have been in the process of demonstrating the validity of their judgments.