Reply #64: access

[William Z. Foster]

It is access to the media that is the issue, not what is or isn't being said.

So long as access to the media, and the government, is for sale to the highest bidder the wealthiest people will control both. No surprise there.

If you had the power to stop people from lying, you would also have the power to give power over the media back to the public and take it out of the hands of the few. It does no good to propose solutions without talking about power. No solution that would benefit the working people means anything so long as we the working people have no power.

Yes, if the working people had the power, we could make those nasty Republicans stop lying. Of course, if we had the power we wouldn't need to stop the Republicans from lying and we would have more important things to do than worry about what the fringe right wing was saying.

May as well say "if only we had the power, we would have the power."