Oh fer pete’s sake.
This is just so nuts. Seriously, it is insane.
Can you imagine President Obama demanding to be treated with “deference and humility?” And his staffers having to remind themselves that they are not His Peers?
Dang people.
This is a democracy, right?
Right?
Help me out here. Every time that woman gets up in our faces I feel like we’ve fallen through the looking glass.
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OK. So what do we do about this? Shading the truth is one thing. Bias, yeah — but we have a whole industry now based on bald faced lying and utter bull**** and it’s landed smack dab into very heart of American power along with with a person who rants about decreasing police brutality, violence against protesters, minorities, freedom of the press and democracy.
I don’t believe this. I also don’t see a quick way back through the forest, especially since “president’s” close adviser who shall remain nameless but whose initials are “SB” believes the world has been going downhill since the Enlightenment — this in a country whose very foundation would have been impossible pre-Enlightenment —
Thus democracy, science, suffrage, freedom from fear, tyranny of church and king and feudal lord and even slavery are bad now?