"You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Who cares? If you just fool some people all of the time, via press lying smears, while meanwhile having a core group of followers who don't need to be fooled because you're acting in their interests, you can easily achieve a majority in a democracy.
You never needed to fool all of the people all of the time. You didn't even need to fool all of the people some of the time. Or even some of the people all of the time. All you have to do is continuously fool different people at different times, enough to flip your minority into a majority, and you have total power.
The core democratic constituency of blacks and single white women will always vote for you because you offer them all sorts of goodies. Then you top off your majority by tricking various idiots into voting for you based on random lies about the opposing candidate or lies about the consequences of your policy platforms or lies about revealed scientific data and facts or random logical fallacies and boom, you're in power.
If anyone gets fooled by any of the lies, that's enough to make up the difference and become the majority. And then you have these shadowy liberal billionaires who own all the newspapers and tv programs all trying to fool you with endless streams of lies. They all come up with their own best lie and run with it all day, and if that doesn't work they drop it and concoct a new lie and run with it. They have all the time and money in the world to try to fool you, and there's dozens of these media companies all working on it simultaneously. Inevitably one of these lying media organizations will succeed and boom, they've just flipped a Republican voter to the Democrats.
If you allow these media companies to just say whatever they want with no consequences, it's all upside for them. It's inevitable that they'll eventually fool enough rubes and dupes and morons into voting Democrat through one lie or another. Because they can lie without any consequence, they have four years between each election to attack their opponents every way they can possibly think of. By the time the Republican candidate reaches the voting booth, he's so bloodied by the bad press, battered by endless fake news 'scandals' and artificial organized lynchings that he never stands a chance.
What was Lincoln thinking when he triumphantly declared that all people aren't stupid all of the time? Who cares? Democracy can still be perverted if just some people are fooled some times -- and Lincoln admits that's actually quite easy, practically effortless, a sure thing that will happen every time. So Lincoln is just plain admitting that democracy can never work because people are too easily fooled.
And the Roy Moore election just proved Lincoln's point. People are too easily fooled, and there's not a damn thing democracy can do about it. The free press, in the hands of enemies of the people, is all powerful. No sane country would allow such a press to even exist. What possible gain is there in allowing obvious lies to be published daily that tear down everything good and healthy about your country, while propping up everything evil and unhealthy? These wreckers are destroying America and we're just sitting here, helpless, hidebound by our deference for the first amendment.
All across the world, politicians have stated various 'truths' are unquestionable in their country, and prosecutable if you go against them. In Europe, Canada, Australia and the like, it is illegal for the press to say immigrants are bad people who will do bad things once they get here. They have simply banned the people from disagreeing with them on this issue.
Likewise, in China, it's illegal for the press to denounce the Communist Party. In Russia you're free to say anything you like about Putin, but you mysteriously end up dead in a ditch somewhere afterwards.
In various other countries blasphemy against Islam is illegal and punishable by death, insulting the king of Thailand isn't allowed, and so on and so forth. All these countries understand that allowing the press to run rogue, to run wild, at the behest of shadowy billionaires who do not have what is in the best interest of the people in mind, but only their own best interests in mind (or perhaps their utopian scheme's best interests in mind, which still goes wholly against the interests of the nation), is absolute madness and a recipe for certain destruction.
You simply cannot win elections when the people are reading, daily, about how awful a job you're doing in office and how despicable a person you are every second of every day. Some percentage of the people will buy the swill that the press is happy to publish even at a monetary loss for the sake of eventual political power, and then you're out the door. Perhaps even before your term is done (just look at poor Yakunovych)
The moment the Washington Post reported the defamatory lies about Roy Moore they should have been shut down and everyone involved executed. That would have shut their lying mouths up right fast. Anyone on twitter or facebook who 'liked' or 'shared' the Washington Post story should have been likewise sent to the gulags. Only with a system like that could the 15% of Alabamians who voted for Trump not been swayed into voting for Doug Jones a year later.
You should not be allowed to just make random, uncorroborated accusations against the opposing political candidate one month before an election. Especially about stuff that happened 40 years ago. And then smirk and say, "the ball's in your court, prove it didn't happen." That's not how justice works. Either you should have absolute proof that it did happen or you shouldn't be allowed to report on it at all. This was an absolute coup by the media. This was not the people's will. The people were Republican just one year ago by a landslide. This is absolute madness.
There should be a state media platform, and no other media platform in the entire country. It should tell the people the truth, and ban anyone else from having any say at all. This system is infinitely more likely to be accurate than just leaving it to various billionaires who treat the media as their plaything and reality as their own personal play-doh pen. No oversight, no consequences, no matter how many times they're caught lying. They just say 'oops, honest mistake,' if you catch them out in a lie, and move on with a new defamatory lie. There's just no way to compete against that. If you give that much power to just a few people, the voters will be utterly helpless and totally overwhelmed. And then you don't have a democracy, you have a shadowy oligarchy, where all elections are determined ahead of time by positive and negative press coverage, bought by a dozen or so billionaires who control the media. The voting after that point is just a formality. No different from the voting in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
If the people want any further say in what becomes of America, they need to abolish the press. You can be dead certain that the press is trying to abolish us. Like usual, it's us or them. And like usual, only the Democrats seem to understand the life or death struggle we're in. Republicans, even deep South Republicans from Alabama, are still just sleep-walking to their own slaughter.
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