Robert Reich -Memo to media: There is no middle ground between democracy & fascism.

[kpete]

Memo to the media: Holding Trump accountable for attempting a coup and making off with troves of top-secret documents is not a form of partisanship.

Your obsession with “balanced coverage” is dangerous. There is no middle ground between democracy and fascism.

Link to tweet

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Do Americans know what democracy is? Do they still want a democratic form of govt?

What being a free people really means?

Do they even know what we are talking about?

I don't think we should assume anything at this point.

[onecaliberal]

2. No. Most people have no idea. We're so far down the rabbit hole now.

[Irish_Dem]

3. So selling democracy is a waste of time perhaps.

After so many decades of propaganda and lack of high school civics classes, I don't know if people even
understand what form of government they have or if they even care.

It is quite possible Americans will vote out democracy.

First step is to educate Americans about their government and what it means to be free.
Really free, not made up BS.

[onecaliberal]

4. Not made up BS.

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[paleotn]

5. Roughly 30% certainly lean strongly fascist, if not downright Nazi,

but I still have faith that the other 70% are calling bullshit in 2022. Least that's what the polling and special elections are showing so far.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes those are good numbers.

30% of the US will gladly end our democracy.

They are fine with any form of govt which gives them white, christian male minority rule.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Seek out small, independent news sources. Competition is needed.

[appalachiablue]

8. Amen, RR dead on again.

[kentuck]

9. The media is like the band on the Titanic

We could be engulfed in fascism and they would be telling us how we might lose our democracy, not realizing that it is already gone.

As soon as more people evacuate, the ship will right itself and everything will be back to normal.

And, by the way, Trump is still the favorite to be the President in 2025. They won't bother to tell you why he should be disqualified. They will leave their listeners and viewers with the impression that nothing he has done disqualifies him from being president and that, despite all the crimes, politics could return to normal fairly soon.

There has to be another way to report the news that is so vital to the American people?