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- When George Washington sat at the head of the table at the Constitutional Convention, he allowed no daily briefing of the press and forbade notes to leave the room. Washington, like President Trump, did not take kindly to leakers.
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Washington recognized that if the public heard the details of the debates and disputes at the convention day in and day out, all filtered through the back and forth of the partisan press (which, for all its faults, was at least honest about its partisanship—unlike today’s “objective” journalists), the people might well be excited into losing hope in legitimate political processes. The father of our country had little confidence in the power of the press to inform the people properly.
That was a time in which the average voters were actually informed and had a clue about the issues. That time is long gone. The average american voter doesn't even know who his elected representatives are. Many, many, polls and 'man on the street interviews' have shown this to be true.
Today's public educations system ...isn't.
The public today is much less educated than at any time in history.
Television killed the art of conversation. I-phones put the last nail in it's coffin. People are spoon fed pablum by Public Enemy Number One. They're told what to think not how to.
- the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, et. al., have made fortunes polarizing the country
helping the Dhmikrats to steal election after election
- thus promoting the destruction of our civilization.
...and the Republicans let them.