Fairness Doctrine Floats Back to the Top

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

It's getting its impetus from the creeping feeling that the nation as a whole is no longer behind the left-liberal, big-government paradigm, the way it was in the Thirties and Forties. What they're unable to acknowledge is this is because of a couple generations' experience with it now, and the greater part of the population is now sure this is not in line with what they value in life, let alone in politics.

So the creepier corners of the left-of-center demographic hope to create a government monopoly on information by this means -- the classic twentieth-century information dictatorship, all the while withholding the information that that is what this is, however small it be writ. The thinking is, I believe, forty years out of date in itself, and it exhibits the final failure of the "progressives (always to be understood as chiefly progressive of the power of the omnicompetent State)" to remake humanity in the image they'd like. Now they're trying to mandate advertisement for their nostrums by Federal law, since they can't sell it in the market. This is a failure more profound than they seem to comprehend, but comprehension of anything outside their limited circle of ideas is not a left-liberal strong suit, is it?

That was GREAT! It mixed narrow-mindedness, paranoia, and utter partisanship in one concise post!

Can I steal that? I bet I could get banned at DU again in about 20 seconds.