I don't like what I'm seeing
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I don't like what I'm seeing...
Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters
Trump announces US withdrawal from World Health Organization
Trump signs actions to pull US out of Paris climate agreement, intends to promote fossil fuels and mineral mining
(check https://www.cnn.com/ https://apnews.com/ or any other news outlet if you want to read about it... I don't)
I don't want to know what else I've missed..... I feel sick.
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He's going for shock and awe. We mustn't be shaken. Could be worse--like when Saddam Hussein came to power. Trump will do a lot of things that on the face of it will seem awful. Most of it can be corrected, but we'll have to bide our time. As long as he (they) don't try to stifle elections (I'm not putting it past them), but then we'd have revolt.
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I just read those headlines in the NYT. I feel sick and heartbroken.
It seems to me that this moment was only possible because of a propaganda machine that infected the public's mind and perception of what is true. Fox News and company. The good people I know who enthusiastically voted for this aren't reading and hearing and seeing the reports that you and I are reading/hearing/seeing. They are in a completely different media universe.
So long as "alternative facts" are allowed to pollute the media environment, we aren't going to change this. We have to at least be able to agree on the facts. Which means that the mid-term elections will go the same way. The oligarchs will pour dark money into those races and by the next presidential election--well, we may not have one.
I think we can look to Putin's Russia to see what we are about to become.
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We can't agree on the facts if the government and their media scribes or the tech oligarchs are demanding to dictate the facts to us.
We must go back to respecting First (and Fourth) Amendment rights although our country has gone far enough along the opposite path I can't envision a way back. I certainly don't foresee one in the immediate future.
