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Bruce Brittain's avatar

Germany, 1932: Surely it can't happen here. Oh, it's happening here alright. The First Amendment has become America's cup of hemlock as the dis-information industry makes billions from the Dunning-Kruger crowd.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

I will happily give you a point by point view of Hitler’s rise and Trump’s rise. You will be shocked. I think I may post about it in my Substack space.

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Bruce Brittain's avatar

I've been bleating about the dis-information industry for several years now and any progress toward reining in the bile hiding behind the First Amendment has been mostly ignored until recently. However, no substantive courses of action have been suggested. Goebbels only needed about 30% of the German voters to believe his propaganda for Hitler to take control legally. I'd say that America is about there. James Madison would be appalled, I believe, at the current state of our "well-informed electorate".

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