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The Wielding Truth

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9. Insanity is the right word. Cults are programmed to accept things that are not logical, or humane.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:02 PM
Nov 2020

The rise of all despots to power is fueled by fearful, irrational, better than you, bully followers.

I blame the propaganda that has been available without disclaimers over mass media. Misleading and gas-lighting our neighbors and those who trust that they are not being lied to, is a very bad and hurtful thing in a free democratic society.

I have been for reinstating the Fairness doctrine.

The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the CFC's view—honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011.[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine#:~:text=The%20fairness%20doctrine%20of%20the,honest%2C%20equitable%2C%20and%20balanced.

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