The masthead for the Washington Post has the words: "Democracy Dies in Darkness". The Post embellished the "Darkness" and misinforms the public. Democracy is dying.
I agree.
The worst of it is the WAY it is dying.
It's one thing for a guy with a machine gun to take over and democracy dies. Then at least we all know where we stand. We know the thing has happened by force, and we know what the solution(s) might be.
It's quite another for the thing to happen by way of what
appears to continue to be the universally agreed-upon "process". "Hey, this is legit - after all, people are voting for us".
When in reality, either 1 or a mixture of the following 2 things are happening:
- People are voting for you, but only because of a gigantic collusion of limited information and exclusionary approach by the media, whereby, it renders you in a state of agreement that you'd never be in if you knew ALL the truth.
- Votes are quite possibly being counted wrong, intentionally.
That's the worst because most people won't stand up and do anything. They'll think: "Well, I guess the majority has spoken. Nothing else to do".
Very, very dangerous ... and hard to combat.