When the nationâs representatives pass sweeping tax legislation that the majority of voters do not want and that will in the long-run harm most citizensâââhelping instead corporations, a small, rich elite (including donors), and the politicians themselvesâââthere can be only one interpretation:
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Our representatives no longer represent the public; they do not care to. American democracy has died.
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Democracy didnât die in darkness. It died in the light.
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The full glare of journalism was turned on this legislation, its impact and motives, but that didnât matter to those who had the power to go ahead anyway. Journalism, then, proved to be an ineffective protector of democracy, just as it is proving ineffective against every other attack on democracyâs institutions by this gang. Fox News was right to declare a coup, wrong about the source. The coup already happened. The junta is in power. In fact, Fox News led it. We have an administration and Congress that are tearing down government institutionsâââlaw enforcement, the courts, the State Department and foreign relations, safety nets, consumer protection, environmental protectionâââand societyâs institutions, starting with the press and science, not to mention truth itself. The junta is, collaborative or independently, doing the bidding of a foreign power whose aim is to get democracy to destroy itself. Journalism, apparently, was powerless to stop any of this.
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