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His lies are aging faster than he is! By now, we have heard his repertoire of lies so many times that they should be posted next to the Ten Commandments in Texas schools. To the sane and decent among us, they would be funny if they weren’t so damaging to the country. Gullible, cult minds still act as if they are receiving information from god.

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. Part 3, Ch. 13, § 3.

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The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.

This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

Hannah Arendt, Interview with French writer Roger Errera, 1974. New York Review of Books.

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Letter to the Press 03-22-23

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President John F. Kennedy Talks About the Free Press

President John F. Kennedy talked about the importance of a free press and informed citizens in 1961. #JohnFKennedy #FreePress #InformedPublic #ObjectiveReporting #UnbiasedNews

A blogging friend of mine said he misses the intelligence, wit, and eloquence of a John F. Kennedy speech. His statement reminded me of a video clip I saw a few years ago, where Kennedy spoke about the free press. I’d been greatly impressed by something he said. Something like… an informed public makes the right decisions. However, I could never find that video clip again. Until now. Almost.…

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