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Cant trust em

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Sun Mar-09-08 11:53 PM
Response to Reply #22

30. no, but I will.

thanks for the reminder. I don't typically hear a lot of appeals on NPR.

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-Listen up DU! What is the biggest threat to our democracy?	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:17 PM	#0
- Corporatized, for-profit media	blonndee	Mar-09-08 11:20 PM	#1
- I am not sure i understand your question.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:23 PM	#3
- Not at all. PBS is what we need more of, IMO.	blonndee	Mar-09-08 11:26 PM	#5
- Ok, I see your point.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:29 PM	#10
- I agree, but most people don't know better, and with education in the state it is in	blonndee	Mar-09-08 11:35 PM	#17
- You are right.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:40 PM	#21
- We're inching towards the new media with the internet	Cant trust em	Mar-10-08 12:12 AM	#39
- When news stops becoming a public service, we have a problem.	Cant trust em	Mar-09-08 11:32 PM	#14
- Thank you! You said it much better than I did	blonndee	Mar-09-08 11:37 PM	#20
- Have you given to PBS and NPR?	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:42 PM	#22
- no, but I will.	Cant trust em	Mar-09-08 11:53 PM	#30
- How do you donate to NPR?	Cant trust em	Mar-10-08 07:00 PM	#53
- Babies are not born with an impulse to conform.	sfexpat2000	Mar-09-08 11:21 PM	#2
- I don't agree with your premise.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:26 PM	#6
- Then you haven't known many babies. n/t	sfexpat2000	Mar-09-08 11:33 PM	#16
- Well, I had three.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:45 PM	#23
- Are you absolutely certain that those were babies?	lonestarnot	Mar-09-08 11:50 PM	#25
- Well, they did have red eyes and rotating heads.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:53 PM	#29
- social conditioning	dweller	Mar-09-08 11:52 PM	#27
- It hasn't been easy.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:59 PM	#33
- i tend to believe we are who we are less because of our parents	dweller	Mar-10-08 12:09 AM	#38
- Babies are not born with an impulse to conform.	sfexpat2000	Mar-10-08 10:40 AM	#49
- repukes n/t	Skittles	Mar-09-08 11:23 PM	#4
- What? Please explain. nt.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:30 PM	#11
- continued republican rule	Skittles	Mar-09-08 11:35 PM	#18
- If McCain wins it will be because we have a population of imbeciles.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:47 PM	#24
- I think it is a possiblity	Skittles	Mar-10-08 12:20 AM	#41
- Religous extremism.......be it Muslim, Christian, or Satanism.	yourout	Mar-09-08 11:26 PM	#7
- The marriage of religious extremists with corporate interests. NT	mondo joe	Mar-09-08 11:27 PM	#8
- self-importance	dweller	Mar-09-08 11:29 PM	#9
- Apathy as regards corrupt public officials.	lpbk2713	Mar-09-08 11:31 PM	#12
- The greatest threat to democracy is the media that is unwilling to tell	babylonsister	Mar-09-08 11:32 PM	#13
- Babylonsister, my friend (I hope)	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:36 PM	#19
- I don't agree.	lonestarnot	Mar-09-08 11:51 PM	#26
- Expand. nt.	cbayer	Mar-10-08 12:01 AM	#34
- I often ask questions. Sometimes they are answered here, if people have time,	lonestarnot	Mar-10-08 09:04 AM	#48
- this with all it's faults is an educated, erudite and interesting	spag68	Mar-09-08 11:53 PM	#28
- Totally right and I am inspired by some of the conversations we have here.	cbayer	Mar-09-08 11:58 PM	#32
- Making the m$m tell the truth would be a start.	babylonsister	Mar-09-08 11:53 PM	#31
- We are friends because you ask instead of assuming I'm blowing smoke.	cbayer	Mar-10-08 12:04 AM	#35
- Plutocracy, hands down	Warpy	Mar-09-08 11:32 PM	#15
- The failure to impeach Cheney/Bush.	Sinistrous	Mar-10-08 12:05 AM	#36
- But who's failure is that?	cbayer	Mar-10-08 12:06 AM	#37
- When we all got the "right" to vote in national elections we doomed ourselves	Rosemary2205	Mar-10-08 12:17 AM	#40
- I am not at all familiar with this argument but your concise description is fascinating.	cbayer	Mar-10-08 12:24 AM	#42
- IMHO diversity is one of the few real strengths we have	Rosemary2205	Mar-10-08 12:43 AM	#44
- Lack of education	sleebarker	Mar-10-08 12:32 AM	#43
- Lack of interest is more likely, for lots of reasons.	babylonsister	Mar-10-08 01:23 AM	#45
- Assuming you have a democracy now	Djinn	Mar-10-08 01:49 AM	#46
- I agree with you. A discussion is not a chorus of Amens.	UncleSepp	Mar-10-08 02:21 AM	#47
- Greed.	Zorra	Mar-10-08 11:43 AM	#50
- Start by realizing there is no democracy in this country...	JackRiddler	Mar-10-08 12:12 PM	#51
- the TSA and other government agencies like CIA, FBI, police	alarimer	Mar-10-08 12:21 PM	#52

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