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Originally Posted by Ahldagor
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SCOTUS has ready ruled that a news media outlet does not need to present an objective piece of information in order for it to be called news. What we're witnessing is the business model of journalism coming to its end. Journalism has always been at the sway of eyeballs due to advertisement revenue and direct buys from a consumer. The FCC can't infringe on what an organization is selling as news, journalism because that would put a major chip into the first amendment (the actual over-arcing idea behind the next four years) which would funnel more power to the federal government as being the source of our information much like North Korea. Trump's already laying the foundations and we get to watch our republic fall to the sway of demagogues as executive power will ultimately expand in the next two years.
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Andrew Jackson was more authoritarian than Trump. So was Lincoln. Both had more power and loyalty of the other portions of the state. Jackson, for instance, had the army and a lot of popular support so he could simply ignore the SCOTUS. Trump is being challenged by the judicial branch. That won't last after he stacks the court, of course, but given his popularity, he might have a hostile or at least heavily divided legislature by 2018.
The people sanguine about the demise of the US are getting ahead of themselves. The people lamenting our decline are right but not in the way they think. Our government is alive and well unfortunately. The federal government is fine. The culture, however, is eroding fast.
"As noted earlier, what had essentially extricated the Roman Empire from the 'crisis' of the mid-third century was the ruthless commitment to the ideology of the empire by members of the Roman army's officer corps. Over the course of the fifth century, by contrast, the Western Empire came increasingly to rely upon outsiders whose loyalty and commitment were not to Rome but rather to their own..."
-Peter Sarris
Y'all see any ruthless commitment lately? I don't even see people who can resist a Big Mac