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usa.mom.in.germany's avatar

I’m questioning if I’ve made clear the difference between political leanings (the media’s opinion about the facts v. card stacking as intentionally reporting only certain facts). I suppose we do our best editing after after we hit send 🙃 Let me know if that was clear and, if not, perhaps a later adjustment is due.

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Jennifer's avatar

Thank you so much for breaking this down so clearly. I've been telling my son for 10 years that what he is served on social media is clear propaganda. When he was in 8th grade he was amused by some bare-chested Putin images on horseback. Russia has been working on our youth for YEARS! Not to mention everything that has unfolded since 1987. Eventually they escaped, but even my brothers enjoyed the early Limbaugh days. For many, it just snuck up on them and they didn't realize their pond had been placed on a burner. 🐸

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Katherine Maas's avatar

Deep thanks for the cogent articles you are producing so regularly now. I hope you are getting a good audience. More people need to become aware of these points.

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Cynthia Austin's avatar

Fox 'news'

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Carolyn Burns's avatar

This is a wonderful article that I am sharing others! Reagan seeded so much damage to this country? Capitalism without guardrails is death to free enterprise and death to prosperity. It took 150 years to build the balanced social safety net, a contex for inclusion and the prosperity of the 60's and 70's. It has only taken 40 years of focused seeding and 5 months of wrecking ball to turn back the clock to the late 1800's. Some are being inspired to claw it back with exactly the kind of legislation Germany now enjoys. But it will take much seeding to prepare the US culture to re-embrace these kinds of laws. We must educate on the dangers of unbridled capitalism. Thanks for your work.

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Randolph Nitz's avatar

Excellent article. Deep thinking. People who do not react to this card stacking and other bad things that are not right are compartmentalizing from their previous traumas. Seeing a victim does not elicit a response. They do not see what is in front of them or understand what they have heard. Some go through life totally numb.

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Thomas M's avatar

Faux News

- and it's not just them who tilt it in whatever directions...

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