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Ndp5

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3. Free societies, not authoritarian oligarchies
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:33 PM
Nov 20

That is the fight of our era.

You’re going to see increasing pressure for the press to stay neutral in that struggle, even though the press is only the press so long as it serves democratic aims. Take away that raison d’etre and it becomes something else entirely — advertising, fiction, propaganda.

If Democrats had a time machine, they should go back to 2009 and crack down on the wealthy special interests that are now strangling democracy. There was a mandate for reform then. The Democrats chose bailouts. Ask working- and middle-class voters who swung from Democrats to Republicans if they now think the system is rigged against them. Trump has profited from that cynicism and nihilism.

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