Making the News Fake
Back in the eighteenth century, the founders of this country invented a liberal democratic government that secured and protected personal economic liberty. They wanted a government to guard the freedom of everyone (except slaves) to assure that minority interests and concerns would not be trammeled on by the majority. They desired a political system that had the capacity to resolve conflicts and competing interests while maximizing freedom. And, they sought to form a government that citizens could change when it needed changing and keep when it did right by its citizens. And now, that’s the problem. Competing self-interests and group interests, disparities in economic power, economic exploitation, and safeguarding the rights of social, economic, and political minorities have produced partisan obduracy and personal indifference to practically anything but one’s own well-being. We could change this situation, but it’s not likely. We have become too partisan in our approach. P