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Originally Posted by OBW
I can agree. But I also recognize that a government of the people will necessarily respond to the majority. It is through reliance on the decency of people that the majority doesn't just jail everyone else (at a hyperbolic extreme). But it requires a majority to do anything. And sometimes it takes compromise between two or more minorities to achieve a majority.
If there is no majority — by a single group or a collection of groups — then nothing happens. But with a majority, things can, and often do, happen.
And when we are in the majority, we like what happens. But when we are in the minority, we don't like what happens.
But either way, we are not the only ones who comprise the right (correct) or only reasonable course of action. And we are not the only reasonable people on the continent. And all of the reasonable persons do not agree on everything. And, unfortunately, the unreasonable (and ignorant) are part of what helps make almost any group into the majority on any particular issue at any particular moment.
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But what all sides require, regardless of party or policy, is a "somewhat" fair, honest, and unbiased Press. Unfortunately this has slowly deteriorated over the years. Without an honest Press, all we have is unprincipled propaganda. Forget about the two sides working together. We have one side who refuses to admit that the President was democratically elected. Without this, there is no democracy. The people have no ability to peacefully express their will.
Now we have one side, using the power of the Press, and the power of our intelligence community, continually demagoguing every news event. We are constantly subjected to one outrageous accusation after another. Like a revolving door, every day brings fresh charges, and forgotten defenses of old charges. Except for some Trump-polemic websites, there is no way to even know that these endless accusations have been constantly debunked.