How can we have a democratic process...?

Question

with a main stream media that doesn't report accurately or responsibly?

http://www.freepress.net/node/41347

Answer 1

idk..i dont trust them..

Answer 2

What do you call it when a private organization has a controlling interest in the major news outlets of a nation, as well as it's two main political parties?  I call it conspiracy.  I believe that it could also be considered a prosecutable arrangement under the RICO statutes.

The organization I am referring to is, of course, the Council on Foreign Relations.  I think if the majority, or even a sizeable minority of Americans were made aware of this fact, they would come to realize that what passes for news, is little more than propaganda.  They would see that the candidates we get to chose from, are really just stooges for the Council.

It's hard for many Americans to understand this scenario.  It takes a major shift in your world view.  Millions believe that there is some sort of real difference between the parties.  They think that the news is "slanted".  In fact, the differences in the two parties is just cosmetic.  The media, is not just slanted.  We are not speaking of ideology.  Rather, the parameters of discussion are set by the media.  Anything outside of those limits is just not allowed.

When Ron Paul started speaking about honest money, the Federal Reserve fraud, the fact that the terrorist attacks we are suffering are a result of our own foreign policy, he was ignored by the media, and his own party.  

In reality, we have a one-pary system, masquerading as a two party system.  We have a controlled media, spewing out propaganda for the benefit of special interests.  People need to understand that the media is not controlled by our government, it is controlled by members of the CFR, the same people who are in control of both major parties.

Answer 3

I'm answering a question with a question:

How can we have a democratic process when people are stupid enough to believe everything they hear?

Answer 4

One of the first steps is to repeal the 17th amendment---this will help make up for the uninformed people that scream about how our govenment works and its faults----the forefather consider this and wanted to have the states have a say in the way the Congess acted-- but with the 17th Amendment Ratified----the States became nothing and we have now progressed to Mobocracy

Answer 5

How can the people know what to believe if we are being told a diluge of opposing information?  

If the information machine is broken, the democratic/ republic machine breaks also.  It seems clear to me that there is a severe problem with democracy as we know it in the U.S.  Which begs the question, why are we trying to spread our style of broken democracy to the rest of the world?

Answer 6

We seem to  have one, more or less, but it is sick.

The whole system was set up based upon the existence of an intelligent, well-read, and well-informed electorate.  This we do not have today,  because we are rapidly going the way of ancient Rome--meaning, entertainment oriented.