• crusa187@lemmy.ml
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    All of our media is owned by Zionist billionaires. It’s mostly just the Ellison family. Concern was years ago, at this point it’s just full on media capture. The press barons reign supreme in America; one more freedom gone.

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        It’s “a democracy” in that the rich old white dude at the top gets swapped out every few years.

        But any analysis of government policy vs what regular people want shows exactly no correlation. This isn’t even new. Sure it’s gotten even more egregious lately, but it has always been an oligarchy or plutocracy at best.

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    It’s been at the bottom of most western nations in all the freedom indexes and democracy lists for a long time now.

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    “What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

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      Sadly, the blood of patriots is a necessary ingredient. From environmental protection to civil rights to labor rights to women’s suffrage to the Civil War to the Revolutionary War the blood of patriots was shed. Tyrants ensure this happens.