[MinorityRepublican]

but I blame those exact types of forums for the inexplicable rise of leftism in this country

No internet. We'll go back to 1974 when Richard Nixon was forced to resign and there was nothing that we could do about it.

Except it'll be worse now because the Left had decades to take over all the institutions.

The internet saved our @$$es.

[fr_freak]

The internet saved our @$$es.

Maybe it did, but the question is whether it is still a tool capable of saving our asses or a tool more capable of ruining us. I guarantee that the intel agencies are working hard on a way to co-opt X and everything else as we speak.

I have often thought that returning to the old bulletin board style of communication may be the solution, using VPN tunnels rather than dial-up, to weed out the intel agencies, but nothing is perfect.

Pre-internet, we were boned because too many people trusted the media without question. If we were ever to go back to that, yeah we're screwed. I would hope that we wouldn't go back to that, but we do suffer from a preponderance of the stupid, gullible, and lazy.