What should be really feared is a society that tolerates any news organization hiding the facts, avoiding accurate reporting for the sake of viewer ratings, legitimatizes hate or violence, appeals to man's greatest weakness --- meritless fear. That's what Fox has done; those are the things Lying Donnie and his minions (most of whom are or have been in prison) has based his entire existence upon. The MAGA's imagine all this "distrust" toward government and their fears are catered too by channels such as Fox or Truth Social, etc., for the dollars. Why do you fear the government? Why do you fear the truth? Don't you realize that legit news organizations double or triple source their information? No debate our form om governance is messy. No debate that mistakes have and will be made or that people will fail into corruption. That's who we are as humans. But those realities do not validate grasping onto out right hate, abuse, and lies. Realize there is no "Shadow Government" or mysterious dark governmental plot or force working against you. We're all just people.
I won’t fight you on your opinion, that is your right.
The schematics is where we differ and we can debate.
Who determines truth? What authority determines the standard that the press is held to?
Meritless fear is a constant in every facet of our lives, especially with the advent of the web. Many of our proud and tested traditions have attacked and destroyed by baseless and meritless fear. And for what reason? Power.
The power fear brings me back to an over reaching centralized government that manipulates common economic and social norms to move political agenda.
Much of what is killing our society today, culturally, economically, and safety wise, is a determination to secure power of the country at any cost. It is here that I do not put my trust in a political government, but in my God. And to see political movements pushing us further from God is as vulgar as I can imagine. So that is a base line for me.
God places governments and their leaders in place, but also destroys them. A government, a country, cannot be placed before God.
Political leaders are given a pass. And this power is the key. It isn’t to provide and protect its citizens, it is to control the citizen and remain a power broker.
Man, left to his own accord will corrupt a system for power. That is why the citizen, not the government, should have the power.
So my question begs this. 1) Who determines what is true? 2) Who determines what can be said? 3) Who makes the rules for me to live a life of initiative and prosperity?
And in all of that, do you really want a press in lock step with the government?