Author: Thom Hartmann Stephan: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Authoritarian fascists for obvious reasons do not like or want a free independent press. So one of the first things they do is try to gut the press. And quite predictably Trump and his fascists have started doing that. I had someone ask me the other day, \u201cHow much longer do you think you will be able to do SR? Have you thought it might become dangerous to do it\u201d I had never thought about that. Some readers help with the costs although I still spend $22,000 a year to do SR; it is my way of fostering wellbeing, but the question has stuck in my mind. SR has been attacked by hackers since Trump entered politics. It happens thousands of times each year, and it has become increasingly expensive to protect it. But I had never really thought of it as being personally dangerous to do SR. Have we really become that kind of country? I guess we are going to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is changing the Democratic Party the way to remake our Democracy? <\/strong>Donald Trump<\/a> only got about a million more votes than he did in 2020, but Kamala Harris<\/a> appears to have received somewhere between 6 and 10 million fewer<\/em> votes than Joe Biden did that year. For the over two decades that I\u2019ve been writing and on the radio and TV, I\u2019ve argued that when Bill Clinton embraced Reagan\u2019s neoliberalism in 1992 (and Obama maintained that position) the Democratic Party had taken a fatal turn to the right. I\u2019ve written two books that cover it, in part, as well: The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America<\/a><\/em> and The Hidden History of the American Dream<\/a>.<\/em> It appears that millions of voters essentially said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to [\u2026]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, November 17th, 2024 In an authoritarian regime it\u2019s important to control the news \u2014 and here we go Author: Thom HartmannSource: AlterNetPublication Date: November 16, 2024Link: In an authoritarian regime it\u2019s important to control the news \u2014 and here we go Stephan: Authoritarian… Continue reading
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Publication Date: November 16, 2024
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