The idea that you can take the same road that got you to hell a second time and avoid going to hell is probably one of the most widely held delusions in the United States at this time. It would seem to be most strongly held among those with college credentials, so it is clearly a delusion that people have been educated to buy without thought.
We cannot travel the road of the mass media being allowed to lie with impunity and get anywhere except where that got us in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1986, 2000, 2004, and 2016, the three short, all too short pauses in that march to depravity only prove the delusion of thinking that is something you can depend on to save us. It took less than two years for the lessons learned in 2008 to be overturned in the 2010 "Teaparty" election. Though Obama was lucky in having an ineffective opponent (as Clinton was in 1996) that the Democratic administrations did noting to get us off of the road of "free speech - free press" lies which is why we have Trump after the quarter of a century of the media lying about Hillary Clinton.
The ACLU is among the groups most destructive to American democracy even as they championed "civil liberties". We got to the disaster of 2016 with the freest press in history, Jefferson's romantic notions about that have been definitively disconfirmed in reality as opposed to philosophical sounding platitudes.
We have to take the chance of punishing the media for lying us into fascism, we have little to lose considering what the regime of "free speech - free press" in which lies are allowed leads us to even more peril than taking that chance to achieve and maintain democracy by preventing that road to ruin being taken would. It's a guarantee of depravity moving fast to fascism under the current status quo.
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