Ultimately, the problem wasn’t that our government picked the wrong people and NGOs to police “disinformation.” The problem is that they were picking anybody to do this at all. The entire “disinformation” industry, from its very beginnings, has existed to protect the American establishment from the voices of forgotten Americans. Everything it does is the fruit of the poisoned tree: the hoax that Russian interference, misinformation, and “meddling” is what caused President Trump’s victory in 2016, rather than a winning political message that only he was offering. This travesty has gone on long enough. Our republic is based on putting trust in the ordinary citizenry. Our Founding Fathers took the bold step of believing that ordinary citizens can sift through information, decide which policies and candidates are best, and vote accordingly. Our “disinformation experts” reject this thesis and, in the process, reject our democratic republic itself. If citizens need the government to step in and tell them what is disinformation and what isn’t, then power doesn’t rest with the people at all — it rests instead with the people who write the propaganda telling the public what to believe.Don't trust the people who control the propaganda...
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