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"In February 2017, as Donald Trump took office,
The Washington Post adopted
the first slogan in its 140-year history: Democracy Dies in Darkness.
How ironic, then, that it should now be helping to extinguish the flame of
American democracy by refusing to endorse a candidate for the forthcoming
presidential election.
This decision, and a similar one by the second of America’s big three
newspapers, the
Los Angeles Times, disgraces journalism, disgraces the
papers’ own heritage and represents an abandonment of civic responsibility at a
moment when United States faces its most consequential presidential election
since the Civil War.
At stake is whether the United States remains a functioning democracy or
descends into a corrupt plutocracy led by a convicted criminal who has already
incited violence to overturn a presidential election and has shown contempt for
the conventions on which democracy rests."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
