I find Donald Trump reprehensible and don't want one cent of my money going to his Secret Service protection. And the chances of me getting my way with that are the same as yours keeping your dollars from going to NPR. That's how a democracy works. We all fund things we don't like. Know any antiwar activists who want their tax money spent on the military?
I find Donald Trump reprehensible and don't want one cent of my money going to his Secret Service protection. And the chances of me getting my way with that are the same as yours keeping your dollars from going to NPR. That's how a democracy works. We all fund things we don't like. Know any antiwar activists who want their tax money spent on the military?
Most countries need a military and need protection for their head of state. A country doesn't "need" to have a publicly funded hard-left news organization.
I never said we did. The point was that there will always be things that I don’t like and you don't like that are going to be funded. Whether we "need" to have them is beside the point. And once something begins getting public funding, it's damn near impossible to get rid of. It's the nature of the legislative beast, with its lobbyists and interest groups and all that goes with it.
okay, sparky, time to clarify wtf you think "hard" means in this context, because it ain't hard to want to distance ourselves as far from MAGA as possible.
There is an obvious difference between the military and the media. The basic tenet of a democracy is that media is objective, and that the government is viewpoint neutral, without favor to any given ideology. When you openly court an obvious ideological extremist to run a public news source, you are venturing into anti-democratic waters, wherein the government funds a preferred ideology, as in autocracies. I’d say the same thing if NPR were run by Tucker Carlson.
I find Donald Trump reprehensible and don't want one cent of my money going to his Secret Service protection. And the chances of me getting my way with that are the same as yours keeping your dollars from going to NPR. That's how a democracy works. We all fund things we don't like. Know any antiwar activists who want their tax money spent on the military?
Most countries need a military and need protection for their head of state. A country doesn't "need" to have a publicly funded hard-left news organization.
We also don't "need" tax breaks for billionaires, but here we are.
I never said we did. The point was that there will always be things that I don’t like and you don't like that are going to be funded. Whether we "need" to have them is beside the point. And once something begins getting public funding, it's damn near impossible to get rid of. It's the nature of the legislative beast, with its lobbyists and interest groups and all that goes with it.
okay, sparky, time to clarify wtf you think "hard" means in this context, because it ain't hard to want to distance ourselves as far from MAGA as possible.
Good thing NPR isn't that. :)
There is an obvious difference between the military and the media. The basic tenet of a democracy is that media is objective, and that the government is viewpoint neutral, without favor to any given ideology. When you openly court an obvious ideological extremist to run a public news source, you are venturing into anti-democratic waters, wherein the government funds a preferred ideology, as in autocracies. I’d say the same thing if NPR were run by Tucker Carlson.
An ideological extremist is one thing; a Putin apologist is quite another.