cbayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-10-08 12:17 AM
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Listen up DU! What is the biggest threat to our democracy?
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Two opinions that are worth a read.
In my mind, the greatest threat to democracy right now is the impulse to confirm for people what they believe rather than challenge their preconceptions or tell them difficult truths. The more uncertain things become the more people tell you what you want to hear. We've left the age of persuasion, we've entered the age of confirmation. People don't listen to a argument and maybe change their mind anymore. They hear an argument and if it is not what they already believe in, they go somewhere else.
I think the greatest threat to democracy is having a public that thinks it is fully informed but is not really very well informed at all. Too often in this digital age we jump right into the debate without having the facts.
Transcribed a few answers from NOW (the PBS show) that I thought were the most pertinent tonight.
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That someone would post that on DU is rich,you don`t believe exactly what you are supposed to and you are gone.
No chance to persuade or change minds.
I am sure what the op is whining about is that so many in the country reject the primitives ideals of socialism.
What they don`t realize is that rejection of socialism is a natural reaction to the loss of freedom and that is what socialism brings,there is no other possibility.
Some controlling authority would have to make the decisions as to who had enough,too much and not enough.
Since DUmmies all think of socialism as a free ride to wealth and comfort they omit that part form the equation in their wee little minds.
