I see three legal quirks enabling propaganda in the USA: news networks classify themselves as entertainment, DMCA safe harbor provisions permit social media networks to proliferate untruths, and Citizens United keeps the PAC money flowing. These supports need to be removed, but I’m not sure how.
I think that the US can't solve this from where we are. The government I am talking about in my initial long post is almost certainly going to have to emerge elsewhere. Fascism is rising all over the place, not just the US.
I think we're too far gone to be the country where the new governmental genes arise, but hopefully after we see somewhere else become propaganda resistant, we can eventually incorporate those genes.
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