[EBH]

Yup. At the Executive level with no oversight at all.

Clearly the American people trusted the government for far too long and are grossly undereducated on civic duties.

[Big Red Badger]

Funny.

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I thought it was
CitizenFreePress.
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CabinFever

[Robert DeLong]

For far too long we actually believed they were a benevolent force. Which is easy to do when your focus is on providing for your family.

What a difference one person can make.

Had it not been for Donald John Trump, we might still be lulled into believing in that mirage created for us.

[fella]

"According to Thomas Jefferson (who likely borrowed the quote from others), “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.”

Jefferson meant, at least in part, that from a national perspective, freedom is not something that can be taken for granted. It is not just achieved once, but over and over again; indeed, as soon as a nation stops paying attention to freedom it will be encroached upon by threats from the inside as well as the outside. That means if a nation wants to be free, then the price for that freedom is being always on watch. Always on guard."

Unfortunately we turned the duty of "Vigilance" over to our free press and forgot about it. The free press has since been captured and enslaved by monopolies that are bought by billions of dollars of political campaign and giant company advertising and are far from free.