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Old 11-22-2020, 01:18 PM
 
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A "flawed democracy" by some standards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

A low scoring one by others:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...tic-countries/

criteria "electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties."
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Old 11-22-2020, 01:36 PM
 
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I and many, many others disagree with you, 75,000,000 people, for starters.

I can’t believe how you are supporting a man who is trying to destroy the American democracy and The United States of America itself.

Have you no concern for your descendants, present and future?
How is Trump supposedly doing that? I can't believe how you and yours are supporting Biden who wants to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens so they can retain American jobs, taxes and resources and are creating crowded conditions in our country and wants open borders for more to come here. Have you no concern for your descendants, present and future?
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Old 11-26-2020, 09:11 AM
 
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How is Trump supposedly doing that? I can't believe how you and yours are supporting Biden who wants to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens so they can retain American jobs, taxes and resources and are creating crowded conditions in our country and wants open borders for more to come here. Have you no concern for your descendants, present and future?

And exactly where did you get this ridiculous info? Must have been on some nutty right wing source! None of it true.

Biden does want to restore the DACA kids rights, which I agree with. They were brought here by their parents when they were young children and know no other country but the USA. They have been educated here and are a benefit to our society.
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Old 11-26-2020, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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- When only one party has favorable media coverage and the other political actors are silenced,
No doubt you need to become of aware of Newsmax and One America News, for starters, to find out just how wrong your are.
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Old 11-26-2020, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Didn't you get the memo? FOX is now a leftist media channel.
Then explain just why the heck is Sean Hannity still there?
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Old 11-26-2020, 12:51 PM
 
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And exactly where did you get this ridiculous info? Must have been on some nutty right wing source! None of it true.

Biden does want to restore the DACA kids rights, which I agree with. They were brought here by their parents when they were young children and know no other country but the USA. They have been educated here and are a benefit to our society.

The 11 million number is more like 25 million in reality.

“I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt.
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Old 11-26-2020, 12:52 PM
 
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Then explain just why the heck is Sean Hannity still there?
Hannity and Tucker are still hanging on with enough viewers but they'll be gone soon.
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Old 11-26-2020, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Texas
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- When only one party has favorable media coverage and the other political actors are silenced,

- When free speech is denied from half of a country's citizens on the most popular social media platforms and online discussion forums,

- When even the widely used search engines and video-sharing platforms start to behave as political actors and promote a one-sided narrative,

- When people are ostracized and oftentimes losing their jobs because of their political views,

It's a sure way to know that democracy has been compromised.


If Americans knew what communism is and what kind of inhuman lifestyle inevitibly comes with it, they would blow their own brains out before wanting to implement that system in US soil...
The problem is that Americans do not have any idea about communism/socialism in action because historically the US was never under Soviet – or any other forms of authoritarian - occupation. Maybe the oldest generations of African-Americans could have some vague idea about the kind of oppression that communism means when it is truly set in action.


I'm actually from a real post-communist / post-socialist country which is now part of the European Union. Under the socialist era, when western TV programs, music, etc. were still censored (even traveling to western “imperialist” countries were practically banned for the average citizen), the United States was the ultimate symbol of the free world for us. The movie “Moscow on the Hudson” with Robbin Williams presents it beautifully.

People in the USA are so sucked into their own political party’s bubble that they are blind to notice that the ultimate monster is already banging at their country’s door, maybe half-step already inside. You don't realize that the censorship that is happening all over your televisions, social media platforms and popular online discussion forums is already the first step of authoritarianism set in motion.
It should be a common a goal - outside of the current political realm - to stop censorship until your idea of freedom that you comfortably take for granted will be taken from you irreversibly.
Thank you the democrats allow antifa and blm to destroy, riot, loot and it's ok..when we have regular people March we are told NO! Biden wants to charge a tax on guns..we have the second amendment....socialism will be the ruin notmsavior is the U.S.
Churches won’t be allowed to meet but blm and antifa I’ll.
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Old 11-26-2020, 01:06 PM
 
Location: USA
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Democracy has been compromised. GOP-led gerrymandering, the US Senate setup, and the Electoral College mean that Democrat candidates have to get as much as 58% of the vote to either win a candidacy or win control of a legislature.

Stalinism in the US is a typical right-wing victim fantasy. 99.99% of the left doesn't want anything like that. Just like the ridiculous comparisons of Trump to Hitler. It's not going to happen. You should realize that you're being manipulated by whatever media you watch into believing this falsehood.

Ultimately the right and the left actually aren't that far off in what they feel should be the role of the state. But people make millions off of convincing people otherwise, and getting them riled up, and watching their news, and sharing it, and dreaming about it.
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Old 11-26-2020, 01:54 PM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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And? That's NOT favorable media coverage?

Remember, I questioned the allegation that "only one party" receives favorable media coverage and I still see no reason to believe that to be true.

It is worthless to try to get through to you, so I will illustrate this for others who may not be as hopelessly wilfully blind.


Media Favorable to Liberals and Democrats

Television
ABC TV and news
CBS TV and news
NBC TV and news
PBS

Cable
CNN
MSNBC
Bloomberg
Half of Fox News (look at how many liberals have been hired the past 5 years)

Print & online newspapers
The New York Times
The Washington Post
USA Today
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
The Chicago Tribune
The Lost Angeles Times
The Star Tribune
Newsday
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Guardian
Cutting to the chase, almost every single US city newspaper

Print & online magazines
The New Yorker
Mother Jones
The Atlantic
Time Magazine
Newsweek Magazine
Wired Magazine
The Economist
Harvard Political Review
Salon

Social Media
Facebook
Twitter
Google
YouTube

Radio
NPR

Online Magazines
The Huffington Post
Politico
Daily Kos
Liberal Oasis
MoveOn.org
The Nation
The Daily Beast
Buzzfeed
The Hill

Movies
Hollywood



Media Favorable to Conservatives and Republicans

Half of Fox News (look at how many conservatives were fired the past 5 years)
One America News Network

The New York Post
The Wall Street Journal Editorial

National Review
The American Spectator

Breitbart
Newsmax
The Blaze

Rush Limbaugh and other talk radio

Parler


This is off the top of my head. I could go on and on with liberal media organizations if I bothered to reasearch it, but there are so many thousands it is just too numerous to list, and it is not just the huge number of media sources favorable to liberals and Democrats but their reach and importance.

There is no right wing equivalent to ABC, NBC, or CBS on broadcast television.

Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube are absolute monopolies.

You can count the conservative newspapers on one hand.

Hollywood is an industry monopoly with no right wing equal.

To say "the media favors one party" is very nearly the complete, total, absolute, incontrovertible truth. The media has a 99% stanglehold on news and information shoveled to the mass of people. Against that there is what? Half of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, preaching to the choir.

And I am still thankful for living in the shell of the best nation on earth, even though my nation died on November 4, 2020. RIP. Happy Thanksgiving.
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