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Why are we still allowing predators and dimwits any kind of power?

Ingela Canis
The Bad Influence
2 min readMay 29, 2020

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If you don’t reside in the US I’m very happy for you…

I’m an advocate of free speech. Or rather, I used to be.

I used to believe that things need to be allowed to be said — even by outright crazies. Because people, in general, used to have enough sense to see through it all and then either ignore it or take action against the perpetrators.

But we have now clearly ventured into the Twilight Zone. This has become absolutely absurd and dangerous.

America is collapsing. Faux News propaganda is closely followed by scores of formerly sane people who now actually believe the network’s tall tales.

We are seeing an increasing number of desperately uninformed viewers whose 24/7 “news diet” consists of… well, tabloid crap and completely made up falsehoods.

A recent study by Pew Research Center reveals among other things that:

“…63% of those whose main source of political and election news is Fox News said Trump is doing an excellent job responding to the outbreak.”

Excuse me?

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Ingela Canis
Ingela Canis

Written by Ingela Canis

Recovering naïve believer in genuine goodness.

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