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libodem

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43. Yep
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 11:26 AM
Feb 2013

The 4th estate is like the 4th leg of a table. A table will stand on three legs but it can be tipped over so easily. A well informed electorate, who can suss out bullshit and lies is so important.


Why were we ever stripped of the fairness doctrine???

I would say it started with Reagan. But the 2000 stolen election was a serious blow. nt raccoon Feb 2013 #1
So American was at it's height under Carter? hughee99 Feb 2013 #50
In some ways, yes Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #57
And everyone forgets Ford's campaign slogan. "WIN" for.... Lochloosa Feb 2013 #90
It was Orwellian double-speak for killing wages and little else. TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #98
When the media was bought by the right-wing. Not for the purpose of informing the populace... BlueJazz Feb 2013 #2
Yep libodem Feb 2013 #43
Exactly, watoos Feb 2013 #45
we will hopefully be saved by an astroid that can't come too soon... corkhead Feb 2013 #3
Answers, yes, and, 1970. Spider Jerusalem Feb 2013 #4
^this Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2013 #7
Yep Strelnikov_ Feb 2013 #22
"be ready for a 10 gal. month gas ration" CrispyQ Feb 2013 #28
I'm on rationing already! For years I used to just get ~10 gals at a time ... Now, RKP5637 Feb 2013 #33
I agree. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #34
I admit, it is more my hope how things will be handled Strelnikov_ Feb 2013 #44
Well put. n/t customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #75
All governments/systems peak and decline madville Feb 2013 #5
It's going to be very good or very bad. My observation is that real change generally only RKP5637 Feb 2013 #25
We will probably get a preview madville Feb 2013 #29
I don't believe much good will come after major catastrophes... We People Feb 2013 #39
Nixon killed the Liberal Era. Reagan killed the Great Society. Bush killed the Constit/Mid Class. leveymg Feb 2013 #6
Agreed marions ghost Feb 2013 #76
yes steve2470 Feb 2013 #8
My gut feeling is the US will regionalize to survive. The divides are too great, and as RKP5637 Feb 2013 #18
1980 - when working class americans lost their collective minds and pulled the lever for reagan. KG Feb 2013 #9
I couldn't agree more... Dan Feb 2013 #105
no Coyotl Feb 2013 #10
It started with Reagan, election 2000 was the final nail in the coffin. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #11
Whoever made the first "free trade" deal. Don't know who it was, but that was the beginning of patricia92243 Feb 2013 #12
Nixon's Ambassador to China, George H.W. Bush, was the point man. leveymg Feb 2013 #17
I've thought about this topic and I do trace some of it back to that We People Feb 2013 #41
What's not so difficult to believe is how successful it was. Mission Accomplished. leveymg Feb 2013 #58
Interest rates are too low fadedrose Feb 2013 #13
Interest rates for savings are so low it's not even worth trying to save anything. And the banks are RKP5637 Feb 2013 #19
No Jumpin Jack Fletch Feb 2013 #14
Nnnnnnope cherokeeprogressive Feb 2013 #15
yes. blame entropy...all things go to disorder. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #16
Thank you for posting this. Often I have tried to explain to people (off DU) that RKP5637 Feb 2013 #20
my chemistry PhD is worth something at last! NRaleighLiberal Feb 2013 #26
My background in physics helps me to understand! Now, I mostly take care of my cat! RKP5637 Feb 2013 #30
It may be a good thing to be a country in decline lunatica Feb 2013 #21
it's not irreversible, but it won't be reversed JVS Feb 2013 #23
I tend to think that way too Smll_Ax3 Feb 2013 #24
Yes. Reagan. jsr Feb 2013 #27
No more than it was in the late 1920s, IMO. MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #31
I would also say that the fundamental decline continued through the Clinton years Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #37
I agree. bvar22 Feb 2013 #68
Of course you do. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #86
I'd say the peak of our accomplishments was the moon landing truebluegreen Feb 2013 #32
The day the first Native American was killed so we could live on their land? n/t jtuck004 Feb 2013 #35
I'd go back further and say mgardener Feb 2013 #36
Only reason Nixon wasn't impeached was he resigned first. eShirl Feb 2013 #46
Yes. CrispyQ Feb 2013 #38
I've thought the same thing. truebluegreen Feb 2013 #52
It was a "trifecta." CrispyQ Feb 2013 #104
You forgot marions ghost Feb 2013 #83
I have a different view John2 Feb 2013 #40
For me it was the day Mockingjay Feb 2013 #42
The Powell Memo HomerRamone Feb 2013 #47
+100 nt truebluegreen Feb 2013 #53
Ronnie Raygun doubling the national debt kairos12 Feb 2013 #48
I'm with Hunter S. Thompson in thinking that Nixon killed the American dream. Snarkoleptic Feb 2013 #49
This started Livluvgrow Feb 2013 #51
America still has the capacity to do great things think Feb 2013 #54
American certainly has the capacity, but not the willpower. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #60
I remain optimistic that the tide is turning think Feb 2013 #64
America is in irreversible decline just like the Roman Empire. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #55
No. H2O Man Feb 2013 #56
I would exclude the 'spiritual' part. ronnie624 Feb 2013 #74
You would; I wouldn't. H2O Man Feb 2013 #87
You are mistaken. ronnie624 Feb 2013 #88
Spirituality does not H2O Man Feb 2013 #92
I can't accuse you of ignorance, as I have read many of your posts, ronnie624 Feb 2013 #110
SOME people had recovered from Reagan by 2000 Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #59
Not irreversible Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2013 #61
The main reason for America's decline is attitude, not circumstances. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #62
The Banksters and hedge fund managers and CEOs are the worst offenders Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #66
American exceptioalism is JEB Feb 2013 #79
No, but a rough patch treestar Feb 2013 #63
We would need three things to stop declining or at least to decline in a way that Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #65
DURec for Post #65 by Lydia Leftcoast! bvar22 Feb 2013 #69
That too, and we've seen all of those in our lifetimes Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #73
Being an empire is a hard act to perform. We're getting booed off the stage. That's showbiz. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2013 #67
No we have the tools to change... Kalidurga Feb 2013 #70
IMO yes. Started in the 1970s or at the latest 1980s. n/t ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2013 #71
It started when CalFresh Feb 2013 #72
It started when teenagers started going to co-ed dances Quantess Feb 2013 #78
bullshit. nebenaube Feb 2013 #109
I think TV's a bigger factor than most suppose. hay rick Feb 2013 #108
I blame Reagan. We've never totally recovered from the blows he dealt us. kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #77
We "could" have recovered from Reagan easily... bvar22 Feb 2013 #94
Ha, during the Reagan administration, Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #95
If you let Conservative ideology Shankapotomus Feb 2013 #80
NAFTA, and failure in the 1970s and 80s for an energy policy davidn3600 Feb 2013 #81
When women JEB Feb 2013 #82
The country never recovered from Reagan, not even close. Motown_Johnny Feb 2013 #84
It began in the sixties Justpat Feb 2013 #85
I'm inclined to agree that it was the Sixties. Noam Chomsky reminds us that "historical amnesia" ancianita Feb 2013 #89
Dallas, November 22, 1963. Scuba Feb 2013 #91
not comatose media datasuspect Feb 2013 #93
Agreed... elzenmahn Mar 2013 #114
After WW II we had the world's only intact industry and all the gold in Fort Knox FarCenter Feb 2013 #96
Yes. lonestarnot Feb 2013 #97
Probably. moondust Feb 2013 #99
we can fix it just as easily as they fucked it up,by doing the exact opposite Fight2Win Feb 2013 #100
Yes to in decline, it was on the march by the 70's, and no it isn't actually irreversible TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #101
Name the date - August 15, 1971 OutNow Feb 2013 #102
Bluto/Animal House "Nothing is over until we decide it is! IADEMO2004 Feb 2013 #103
Different parts of our decline started at different times ShadowLiberal Feb 2013 #106
All humanity is. stuntcat Feb 2013 #107
it started with reagan Skittles Feb 2013 #111
Unless we can get the Republicans and the corporations under control and restart democracy… MrScorpio Feb 2013 #112
Definitely not FreeJoe Feb 2013 #113
The decline isn't irrevisible. valiberal26 Mar 2013 #115
irreversible? no. but have the economic & political masters of the universe targeted it for HiPointDem Mar 2013 #116
Since Katrina, and yes, a few years earlier.... Amonester Mar 2013 #117
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