We are so shaped by the media. Not just the Main Stream Media and personally I don't think they are really main street anymore. There is also the very successful Right Wing Media led by Rush Limbaugh and other fear and lie mongers who want us to believe they are the majority and they are the "real" America.
The pendulum has swung way far right and the Republican Party's original fiscal conservatism to a more theocratic ideology and a "false patriotism" that insists that we cannot be a great country without being able to tell everyone else how to live.
Way too much is ass/u/me/d about right and wrong and we have fallen into an inflexible paradox. The more we think we know about what is acceptable the less is actually acceptable and we are trapped in a less free society.
One day we will figure out that free speech is a good thing and that bad ideas will fail and good ideas will succeed in a free thinking society.
I ran across this video from the Bill Moyers TV show that should make you really think. If it doesn't make I am sorry for you and gridlock is inevitable.
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The pendulum has swung way far right and the Republican Party's original fiscal conservatism to a more theocratic ideology and a "false patriotism" that insists that we cannot be a great country without being able to tell everyone else how to live.
Way too much is ass/u/me/d about right and wrong and we have fallen into an inflexible paradox. The more we think we know about what is acceptable the less is actually acceptable and we are trapped in a less free society.
One day we will figure out that free speech is a good thing and that bad ideas will fail and good ideas will succeed in a free thinking society.
I ran across this video from the Bill Moyers TV show that should make you really think. If it doesn't make I am sorry for you and gridlock is inevitable.
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