Hastur wrote: Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:12 am
BjornP wrote: Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:34 pm
The logic is sound enough: If no one holds local government accountable on a steady basis, if no one fact checks them on their statements, then government can do whatever they want.
How many working citizens have time to sift government legalese, decipher it, and find out they're really getting a hidden tax hike instead of a promised tax break, for example. It's one one thing to say you don't like biased reporting. That’s a complaint against bad journalism. But to want journalism gone, period, is to invite a bigger and bigger State to rape your ass like a bitch and you getting Stockholm syndromed into thinking your rape is "neccesary". If something doesn't work, fix it, instead of just flailing and crying that it can't ever be done.
The same is true about the lack of coverage everywhere. We have no EU coverage to speak of. The result - out of control spending.
Excatly, that story about the reality of the US media bubble that I've posted sometimes, applies to the EU, too. Here's a story - a little dated, but still relevant - by an Australian trying to cover the EU:
https://voxeurop.eu/en/content/article/ ... els-bubble
With EU, the sheer size and byzantine complexity of its bureacracy, and the speed with which the Commission keeps increasing its authority over national governments, also works in the favor of the lack of coverage. For many citizens, trying to understand the EU is like trying to learn an advanced mathematical equation... in an ancient, dead language.
But like the Americans, alot of Europeans are gradually leaning away from democracy, anyway, so I guess by the time we're either dead, or old enough to be chugged into an incinerator as cranky, old supporters of the ancién regime, it won't matter. Your great-grandkids will bow down before Le Empereur Macron 4nde, and think WW2 was just one of "European civil wars", and my army of grand and great grand kids will do the same. And they'll all speak "Frankseizish", the new French-German combi-language, heralded as the proper "European" language.
And it will be funded by the American right, because EU'll get their new best buddies, Russia, to set up a propaganda service convincing them all Europe's 100% white, anti-Communist, and Christian.
Fame is not flattery. Respect is not agreement.