Should the media be an advocate for democracy?

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  1. Bullseye

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    Wanna buy a bridge?
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    So, you're committed to Democratic Propaganda Department. I expected you to be more thoughtful than a dedicated cultist.
     
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    They aren't just anti-Democrat. They are anti-anybody-that-doesn't-look-love-and-or-worship-like me.
     
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    Now all you have to understand which party is mainly composed authoritarians. (Hint it starts with a D)
     
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    How are Democrats authoritarian?
     
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    Best for the most is utilitarianism.
     
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    Yes, wolves. Profound.
     
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    Trump's AG Barr said there was no fraud.
     
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    whatever that is.
     
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    Thank for showing your knowledge.
     
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    Do you understand that not finding the proof does not mean the crime didn't happen? Obviously- you don't understand the difference.

    Barr has also admitted that he had his mind made up before the investigation. That doesn't bother you either?
    While it's not uncommon, arriving at a conclusion before you seek the evidence pretty well insures you will only look for what you have already decided is true.
    NOT the way justice is supposed to function.

    So now- we have the most incompetent administration in history, and a president so lacking in basic awareness that he often doesn't know he is president. This was pretty obvious during the campaign. SO- have Americans become so stupid they didn't notice? Do you think they would chose incompetence and chaos knowingly? Not saying they would or not- asking of YOU think they would.
     
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    If you believe Trump won the election we probably have nothing further to discuss.
     
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    That's because you are unable to "discuss", which requires examining and responding to positions you don't like. You can probably argue, but I don't think you can discuss.
    But I agree. No sense in listening to the equivalent of swamp gas.
     
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    You can't be serious. Everything they've done from the woke mafia, to the overblown congressional attempt to blame every one in America who doesn't agree with their policies for January 6 to open support for the ever more fascist antifa, and the self described Marxist of BLM.
     
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    None of that is about Democrats. Not the party.
     
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    Lest I repeat, repeat, repeat myself, we have a republic. But the left's long, and relentless indoctrination as such
    Did you misstate your title? Did you mean
    Should the media be an advocate for democracy?

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    What do you mean by democracy? Do you mean freedom?
     
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    How do we rule ourselves?
     
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    Democracy means the people rule, not kings, not dictators, not political parties.
    "Freedom" is very abstract.
     
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    Which is mostly bestly accomplished under the narrowly-limited rule of law in a libertarian state that reserves the majority of the political, social, and economic agency in the hands of the individual, rather than the state - a point lost on our contemporary duopoly comprised mostly of unapologetic authoritarians, adulant corporatists, and sycophant-citizens who have been conditioned to gladly hand over their personal agency by granting imprimatur to the ruling class of their chosing, glibly convinced they are participating in "democracy."
     
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    Did you ever study government in junior high? Serious question. Because I learn about government then.
     
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    How do people rule themselves?

    Look, If you want to learn, read through the two threads: "A republic, if we can keep it" and Continued: A republic, if we can keep it."

    Please stop with the indoctrination.
     
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    We have devolved into a duopoly. Meaning there is very little difference between the two parties. Both sides of the same coin if you will. A choice of the least worst option does not seem like much of a choice to me.
     
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    How is the "narrowly-limited" rule of law established?
     

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