Reply #30: Yep when only one side gets to present its warped view

[benfranklin1776]

that its view, however wrong it is, becomes much more widely accepted Its not the majority view
of course since its so extreme, witness the last Presidential election when despite biased coverage Gore still won the popular vote and Florida if the count was allowed to proceed, but it radicalizes the "true blue movement believers" since they find reinforcement for their extreme hateful views and believe that its OK to use whatever means necesssary to silence the opposition. Remember their credo is drawn from that of Goldwater who seems tame by today's standard: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." So if you think that you are defending the nation from the" godless libruls" then anything goes in this way of thinking. A balance of viewpoints would do wonders towards allowing the antidote of truth to counteract their steady venom of hate that is poisoning the body politic.