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Democracy Fails If People Have Free Access to Information Claims Mainstream Media
Citizen Watch Report ^ | Chris Black

Posted on 09/16/2023 4:33:30 AM PDT by davikkm

If “democracy” can’t survive without mass internet censorship, then it seems to me that democracy is not a valid system.

The entire concept of modern democracy, which is universal suffrage democracy (as opposed to a traditional American-style system where only land-owners can vote) – is that every person in society are totally actualized human beings capable of absolute rationality.

However, if the only way these citizens are capable of making decisions is if the government regulates their exposure to the free flow of information, then why on earth are they allowed to vote?

It doesn’t make sense.

Take your pick:

Either every individual is totally capable of analyzing information and drawing the most logical possible conclusions from it, or democracy is retarded as a concept of governing.

I mean, if people are too stupid to figure out the basic facts of reality, and get confused by news stories that present conflicting ideas, then you need to stop democracy.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: mainstream; media
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1 posted on 09/16/2023 4:33:30 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

The whole purpose of today’s public education system appears to be to produce functional illiterates to serve as serfs to the government.

Coupled with the continuing attempts to abolish the 2nd Amendment, its goal appears to turn us all into “Subjects” as opposed to “Citizens”.


2 posted on 09/16/2023 4:45:42 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: davikkm
"If “democracy” can’t survive without mass internet censorship, then it seems to me that democracy is not a valid system."

I think that says more about the internet than it does about democracy. Maybe it's that American democracy is not compatible with the internet as we know it.
3 posted on 09/16/2023 4:47:20 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: davikkm

It depends on what version of democrazy you’re talkin’ about. The Josef Stalin version (the Covid 19 of all democrazies) which is currently being installed here in the former America, is a failure no matter what happens.


4 posted on 09/16/2023 4:50:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: davikkm

In a society where anything goes, the only way to control it is government. Total rule by the state. And I’d say we’re getting pretty close.


5 posted on 09/16/2023 4:54:26 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: davikkm

Okay, who’s got that thought police you’ve-had-too-much-to-think meme....


6 posted on 09/16/2023 4:56:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: davikkm

Huhhhh...?


7 posted on 09/16/2023 4:58:43 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: davikkm

Seems as the style of democracy as practiced by liberals is the kind where whoever shows up first and screams the loudest gets what they want automatically.


8 posted on 09/16/2023 4:59:00 AM PDT by W. (Hillary should have married OJ, someone here said yesterday...)
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To: sit-rep

With our boarders and votes invalidated, we’ re already tax serfs!


9 posted on 09/16/2023 4:59:50 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: davikkm

Ah. The thought police. Satan and his demons are delivering our beloved nation into the hands of evildoers posing as our protectors. There is only One protector. His name is Jesus Christ. There is no other name by which we are saved.


10 posted on 09/16/2023 5:01:34 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a former Texas public school teacher, I recommend home school)
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To: W.

THAT’S ‘mob rule’ and bears no resemblance proper, representative government.


11 posted on 09/16/2023 5:02:18 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: davikkm

[Amendment I]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Amendment IX]

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.


12 posted on 09/16/2023 5:04:49 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath.~ Sherlock Holmes )
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To: SMARTY

Btt!!


13 posted on 09/16/2023 5:20:00 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: equaviator

We don’t live in a “ democracy”. The system was never designed to be a democracy.

We are a Republic!


14 posted on 09/16/2023 5:27:34 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

Democracy is a major feature of our form of government.


15 posted on 09/16/2023 5:35:16 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: davikkm

Once people understand that the definition of Democracy that ‘they’ have is a system where ‘they’ control who’s allowed to run for office, and therefore ‘they’ control who is in power over us.

And, obviously, ‘they’ cannot control Trump, which is why ‘they’ fear him so much, to the point of trying to jail him and having to send their Operatives to sites like this little one to denigrate him.


16 posted on 09/16/2023 5:39:53 AM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: davikkm

“ The entire concept of modern democracy, which is universal suffrage democracy…”

Every “warm body democracy” in history has collapsed into ruin and slaughter. Ours will be no different.

L


17 posted on 09/16/2023 5:48:50 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: equaviator

“ Democracy is a major feature of our form of government.”

Incorrect. Voting is a major feature of our government. The Founders were absolutely horrified by democracies. That’s why our government was designed the way it was.

L


18 posted on 09/16/2023 5:50:53 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: davikkm

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19 posted on 09/16/2023 5:52:29 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Stalin would be envious of the control and surveillance tools now available to the American government. These tools were beyond the comprehension of George Orwell or Aldous Huxley. If Biden, or Michelle Obama, Gavin Newsom, or Gretchen Whitmer win next year and the Democrats retake the House of Representatives, 2025 will be to America what 1918 was to Russia or 1934 to Germany. ( Maybe I should learn Hungarian!)
20 posted on 09/16/2023 6:02:08 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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