When we finally get a US Supreme court willing to put the first amendment on the right track in weeding out protections for deception, misinformation and lying, we can then begin to have national discussions about real arguments concerning policy. Until then we have too many wealthy interests who would rather confuse and obfuscate facts with half truths and out and out lies to keep our electorate in the dark about how our current policies are being manipulated. There is much to be gained financially by those greedy souls when they can keep people from knowing the truth of things in order for them to continue in some society harming, profit making venture. They have theirs and they could care less if you or I can even get a little bit of ours. Anyway, back to my point, until we can have a system for debating national policies that is free from dishonesty and chaos, we will not be able to effectively continue in our drive towards modernity. As it is now we are so confounded by misinformation that it seems that modernity is now a bad thing and regression to thoughtless obedience is now a good thing. This has all happened because our society has a disingenuous US Supreme court that does not see it's duty to make our union more perfect, instead a majority of them have placed their own philosophical ideology above visionary objectivity. This current court is incapable of leading our society into the future much less the present. In fact it seems it is only capable of leading us back to the past. Sadly we are stuck with these conservative ideologues until they retire or die in office. It is my hope that they will not do too much more harm to our progression while they are still in office. At any rate, our society is in need of a leader in the court who can, with gravitas, nullify our current first amendment protection of lies and deception.
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