As Carl Sagan explains, meaningful conversation involves constant skepticism and testing of viewpoints and claims. Anything else is kayfabe conversation. Any attempts to outlaw or discourage skepticism or testing of any viewpoint or claim is an attempt to dehumanize the other person, to force them to become your puppet = Nietzschean ressentiment.
Ruy Teixeira explains "How the Democrats Became the Party of the Ruling Class." Excerpt:
The Democratic Party, he argues, has abandoned its traditional working-class base and become a party of college-educated elites. For decades, the party has been hemorrhaging white working-class voters. But in recent election cycles, it has suffered big losses among Latinos without a college education, and has started to slide with non-college-educated Asian and even black Americans as well. The Republicans have capitalized on that loss by embracing these exiled voters, creating an inverted political dynamic that has left those of us old enough to remember the traditional pro-worker, anti-war left with our heads spinning . . .
The city-dwelling, college-educated, professional-class demographic that serves as both the political base of the Democratic Party and the ideological core of the left constitutes America’s new ruling class. As such, its interests, values, and worldview are as one with the institutions that form our country’s political, cultural, and corporate establishments — including government agencies, NGOs, universities, and the industries of cultural production. Unsurprisingly, these power centers benefit from mass censorship of those who dissent from their orthodoxies, from the contrivance of new disciplinary tools to wield against the working class, and from the endless invocation of emergencies to justify radical exercises of state power, such as Covid-19 and the ostensible menace of Vladimir Putin.
I don't have time to publish about it but aspiring journos in the censorship beat should pull string on the global censorship activities the Obama Foundation is doing w/ CIA cut-outs from the NDI & NED.It's a rabbit-hole of corrupt soft power influence.
Google interferes with a U.S. presidential election. Pro-censorship U.S. corporate media doesn't give a shit.
In the meantime, so-called "civil rights" groups and the Washington Post want to help us by censoring us.
Modern day Democrats have become much more pro-censorship and much more in favor of U.S. government spying on its own citizens. You won't hear the full import of these stories from the NYT/WP/MSNBC/CNN or NPR. They treat you like infants, protecting you from "harmful" ideas. God forbid that they might fall off-narrative, thus incurring the wrath of the DNC. Glenn Greenwald operates differently. He treats his followers like adults. He recently did a two-hour deep dive on both stories on his show, System Update, which you can see on Rumble. Not Youtube, which now has a long proud history of censoring information it doesn't like.
