In a desperate attempt to retain their audience, newspapers and broadcast networks changed their mission. Instead of simply reporting the facts, they started interviewing spin doctors on both sides of the political fence. In short, they replaced devotion to the truth with a quest for balance as their prime directive.
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The insurrection at the Capitol was an act of war, at the direction of the second president of the Confederate States of America. That would be Donald John Trump. This isn’t another civil war. It’s the same one that supposedly ended 150 years ago.
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What has happened is the same thing that happens in a parliamentary government: The Republican Party as we knew it in the 1980s through 2004 has become too weak to hold power by itself. So it has been forced to form a coalition with a “minority party” called the KKK, the Proud Boys, and other white nationalist/Aryan groups in order to stay in control.
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Coded messages carry clear intent to those for whom they’re intended, but disguise that intent to everyone else. We are the “everyone else” listening to Trump’s coded messages. They aren’t intended for us. They’re meant for white nationalists and other insurrectionists.
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All this talk about healing and unifying the country is no better than a placebo if we don’t address the disease at the root of it all. Taking a placebo when your sick may provide some (apparent) relief from symptoms, but it’s one of the worst things you can do, because it keeps you from doing what needs to be done: aggressively treating the underlying cause.
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Censorship of hate speech doesn’t violate the “marketplace of ideas” principle. That concept assumes you’re talking about rational ideas, not incitement to hatred and violence. If someone enters a marketplace and starts making false accusations about a vendor and whipping the crowd into such a frenzy he can’t do business — or inciting them to overturn his stand — THAT’S what suppression looks like. That’s REAL censorship.
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