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So you agree. A number of things may happen as a result of this aberration from the norm. I would like to think a realignment back to strict norms and ethical standards would be in store for DC. Where America goes much of the world follows . . . no matter what policies or ideology one favors we have gone far from the path of democracy and that's not good. China is making their president a virtual Emperor for life? Leaders from around the world are quoting "Fake news" as an excuse to jail those who attempt to question them.OBVI....since 11/8 for sure. QTCB
The number of journalists jailed around the world in connection with their work has reached a record high of 262, according to a new report, with just over half of them imprisoned in Turkey, China or Egypt.
Nearly three-quarters of the detained journalists were jailed after being accused of antigovernment activities, many of them under broad and vague counterterrorism laws. A record number, 21, were jailed on charges of “false news,” a term that has gained resonance as strongmen have embraced President Trump’s attacks on “fake news” to silence critics.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group that does an annual count of detained journalists, said in its report that Mr. Trump had “cozied up to strongmen” and done little to stand up for human rights.
“President Donald Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric, fixation on Islamic extremism, and insistence on labeling critical media ‘fake news’ serves to reinforce the framework of accusations and legal charges that allow such leaders to preside over the jailing of journalists,” the group said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/...-jailed-committee-to-protect-journalists.html
Yet the institutional safeguards protecting our democracy may be less effective than we think. A well-designed constitution is not enough to ensure a stable democracy — a lesson many Latin American independence leaders learned when they borrowed the American constitutional model in the early 19th century, only to see their countries plunge into chaos.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-a-threat-to-democracy.html