Freedom of speech

[Proud liberal 80]

When the founding fathers crafted freedom of speech they didn’t foresee a political party that was going to use it to create propaganda, sow hate and division, tell straight up lies and distortions, make up conspiracies, demonize their political opponents as un-American, and have a media apparatus (24 hour cable channels, radio, websites) to push all this crap....one of their pioneers died today, but there are plenty more of him out there and they are already embedded in our political discourse...they are the reason for the Texas power fiasco, the Capitol riot, the reason Covid is still out of control, the reason why our infrastructure sucks, and I can go on...we will never get anywhere with their well oiled propaganda machine.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Rush got his foothold when there was no internet.

He pretty much could spew his shit without pushback. Today, if Rush was starting his disinformation career, I think he'd have a much harder time.