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In reply to the discussion: Our Dumb Democracy: Why the United States of Stupid Still Reins Supreme [View all]NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)23. The summation is spot on:
"The answer to all these questions is simple these absurdities exist, because our media has replaced truth, accuracy and reality with balance, false equivalency, and stenography and Democrats have been silent co-conspirators.
Why? Because the press is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporations, and too many Democrats feed at the corporate trough.
And thats not funny, but it is stupid."
How true, how true.
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xchrom
Jan 2013
OP
No coincidence that we're all called "products" of the school system either
The2ndWheel
Jan 2013
#11
TV is more inclusive than religions, but both are rooted in fantasy and this nation has
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#17
Including minorities in a fantasy is better than excluding them, but doesn't alter the
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#27
Nice post, xchrom. Love this excerpt: “Stop Illeagles.” Yup, gotta hate it when eagles get ill.
pampango
Jan 2013
#3
The sign says what it says because it is angry white men who are proposing to create
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#34