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lees1975

(3,879 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 10:31 PM Apr 1

Why do we allow this?

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-do-we-allow-this.html

Many Americans pay little attention to anything beyond their own little corner of the country, much less to what is going on around the world. The political polarization we are experiencing cuts through everything, including any thought of being part of an international community that reacts to what happens here because it will, somewhere, at some point, have an affect on their lives.

So it is hard to ignore the reactions from around the world, especially from countries with whom we have been allied in common causes, and with whom we share much history and cultural background, regarding our presumptive Republican Presidential nominee. The founding fathers are rolling over and over in their graves and tombs at any thought of their constitutional protections of freedom of conscience, and free speech, would permit this former President, and current candidate, to say and do the things he does without any consequence at all, and ostensibly, without any loss of support.

The courts are not going to help us, and they're not going to listen. We need to create the kind of public pressure that forces them to make the right choices. To do that, we can't sit home on election day, and we have to stop giving credence to distractors like RFK Jr. and Jill Stein, who offer nothing and have no chance at doing anything except helping Trump win and self-defeat their own agenda.

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lees1975

(3,879 posts)
2. From the Signal Press
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 11:05 PM
Apr 1
Most of the mainstream media is lost in space. We have clearly passed into a generation of news media reporters and commentators who may be decorated with degrees from prestigious colleges, but who can't come up with an intelligent thought of their own based on critical thinking and looking at and analyzing facts. It's become a game of chasing each other down, of what's hot and what's not, what's trendy and what isn't. The dress code has changed, watching reporters on the scene somewhere, who seem to be more into either accentuating their figure, or physique, and advertising the hottest clothing lines and hair styles than reporting the news. Clearly, they're being manipulated into these entrenched themes, that Biden is too old, the Democrats are in disarray, the party is fracturing, and changing the record after the fact when they get something wrong.

TeamProg

(6,230 posts)
3. The "press" should be called "the stress" because that's what they do to keep our attention. They keep ua worried
Tue Apr 2, 2024, 01:05 AM
Apr 2

so we will keep tuning in for better news or progress.

It’s all to sell more ads.

We are victims of our own creation.

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