For that, we can all be thankful!
Posted on 04/30/2017 1:30:07 PM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
Senator Chuck Schumer on MSNBC (via ZeroHedge): “We’re no longer fact-based. The founding fathers created a country based on fact. We don’t have a fact base. If Breitbart News and the New York Times are regarded with equal credibility, you worry about this democracy.”
First of all, in Schumer’s opening sentence, who is this “we”? There is an implication that the “we” is somehow monolithic and centralized. But people have been in disagreement about facts and what they mean since the dawn of time. People have rejected centralized sources of facts, from kings and queens and priests, to newspapers and television news.
In the same way that 99% of economists assume society must be planned and centralized, Schumer and “the people in power” assume media must operate as a centralized force—as if it’s a natural law.
They just assume it, because until recently, it was the case, it was cozy and easy. But not now. And they’re angry and shocked. They see their foundation of propaganda and mind control slipping away.
You must appreciate how secure they used to feel. It was a cake walk, a picnic in the park. The definition of “fact” was: whatever centralized media said it was. What could be simpler? And to them, that was “democracy.”
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Hard to be less than zero, but Schumer is proving that is false. He is way below zero.
Chuck speaks truth: “we”....meaning he and allprogressives...are fantasy-based thinkers.
I applaud this honest utterance.
Chuckie pretty much stated that Fake News is real - and that we should rely on those who dish it out as our source.
who the hell is Jon Rappoport?
Most likely the n00b FArtfulogerDodger.
For that, we can all be thankful!
LMAOOOO
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