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In reply to the discussion: Seriously! Why doesn't somebody do something? [View all]Farmer-Rick
(11,448 posts)The media has to report the truth. The media has been spinning their lies for the filthy-rich for centuries. But they have just recently been fully monopolized. We've had spates of monopolized mass media but it only recently has been so compromised by money from Nazis and foreign agents.
But if our educational system was better, our citizens would be able to see through the media spin. But more and more there are book burnings, religious intrusions, history hidden by propaganda, political rewriting of inconvenient facts, no civic instruction and parents keeping reality hidden from their children through home schooling.
Maybe a one sided corporate media that looks to deceive instead of to tell the truth and a bad education could be overcome if the work place was unionized and promoted worker organizations. But we don't have that either.
Democracy lost out to the oligarchy because a lot of people don't understand how it works.
The fact that the Democrats have made absolutely no effort to look into verifying the vote count tells me even they don't understand democracy.