Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "" video.
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That 67 to 33 is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It's the majority required to make any changes to the Law of the Land. They kept it simple for that very reason. All the mistakes and corruption, since, have been the work of mere majorities and too-powerful minorities.
Taibbi handed them a straw man on a silver platter, trying to make the case it is somehow worse, now, than it was in the 1960s. It's not. Walter Cronkite was surrounded by third rails he dared not touch. Things ARE different from that era in at least one way. When was the last time you heard a CBS anchor do anything but cheer on the next military action? Can't call it "war," because that requires a declaration of war, which we haven't bothered with since 1941, despite all the wars fought since. Technically, there was no Vietnam War. It was a "conflict." But the whole world and history know that it was a war.
Another thing different, now, other than that, is that news and information have de-centralized. It's a lot harder to squash stories than it used to be. You can BET that everyone consuming conservative or libertarian news sources knew lots of things that passive cable and print news consumers did not. It wasn't like the old days, where people who got the "real story" numbered in the hundreds or thousands, at most. Now there are millions at a pop that get the heads-up that New York Times readers don't.
When I say "old days," it's mostly 20th-Century "old days," when economies of scale and industrial might made a lot of things possible that weren't, before. In the centuries before that, everybody knew the political axe a rag was grinding. Yes, there was a lot of confirmation bias being fed, but lots of people would read different papers and at least have an idea SOMEbody was lying or just plain wrong. The lefties, righties and in-betweens raked mud on everybody else, and people held politics and politicians in generally low regard, AS THEY SHOULD.
Government and media have been on an extended honeymoon since the Great Satan, Himself, Adolph Hitler gave them somebody everybody hated enough to develop very cozy government-private relationships that exist to this day. You think the Biden Administration doesn't have the top execs in MSM on speed dial? Have you read any of the Twitter e-mails Matt Taibbi reported? That's just the tip of the iceberg, and probably only the tip of the tip of the iceberg, because who knows what Elon withheld in HIS self-interest?
The 20th Century was a period of unparalleled trust in media. The MYTH of widespread objective journalism was widely accepted by the masses. That is super anti-American. The U.S. Constitution is a document of organized distrust. Skepticism is #1. We lost that in the heat and euphoria of defeating Hitler (while adopting many of his strategies).
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