From Captive Audience to Open Democracy

OF TWO MINDS ^ | 12-12-2016 | Charles Hugh Smity

[Darch]

"In a democracy, trust must be earned. It cannot be imposed. The days of captive audiences are over. The monopoly on "news" and propaganda has been broken for good."

"Here's The Washington Post's criminally false "fake news" article in case you missed it: Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say."

[Darch]

Good reading by Charles Hugh Smith, philosopher, writer. His excellent writings at www. oftwominds.com cover a wide swath of topics on world and US economics and politics

[Steely Tom]

Democrats used to be all about "Russia Good, CIA Bad."

Now they're all about "Russia Bad, CIA Good."

Kind of like the one-eighty they did on slavery after CWI.

And how Japanese internment went from being "FDR's Shame" to "America's Shame."

[BoomerBill]

Someone at WaPo needs to realize this is not a democracy, but a representative republic.

[generally]

The democrat party is like a sociopath who must always have someone to blame for his failures. It can never be his own fault. Democrat policies are working! Don’t you understand? The only reason they aren’t working is the Russians, the climate, the Republicans, the CIA, natural disasters, “fake news”, natural disasters, ....

[left that other site]

It’s funny to see the dembs imply that “Sen Joe McCarthey was RIGHT! The Russians HAVE invaded our government!”

After ALL these years! hahaha!