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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is NOT about crowd size
Trumps real war isnt with the media. Its with facts.Trump needs to delegitimize the media because he needs to delegitimize facts.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/21/14347952/trump-spicer-press-conference-crowd-size-inauguration
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It is NOT about crowd size (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
OP
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. Thomas Jefferson
FreeStateDemocrat
Jan 2017
#6
TexasTowelie
(112,180 posts)1. Little Hands has size fixations.
There I said it without typing the word "penis" in my reply. Oops.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)2. Baby fists
wiggs
(7,813 posts)3. 'The basis of a democracy is a well informed public.' Lincoln paraphrased. Mass
media, dem leaders, journalists, and even honest goprs should begin talking about how a sociopathic, habitual liar in the WH is a not only dangerous wrt to getting individual issues right but is also a serious threat to democracy and our republic.
Only Day 2 and we already are exposing a national crisis.
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)6. A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate. Thomas Jefferson
It goes all the way back to the founders.
wiggs
(7,813 posts)4. Followers of Fox News -- much of the nation -- are not having this conversation today. nt
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)5. Size DOES matter. When we show numbers, we show our power.
There is more than 1 front in any war.
Initech
(100,075 posts)7. Welcome to a world where facts don't matter anymore.
The GOP finished their job of destroying the media with Trump. Anything goes now.