Here’s a little brain teaser for you. Pair up the following appropriately:
Free speech.
Free market economy.
Fairness Doctrine.
Fascism.
Give up? The first two have everything to do with the foundation of this country. That is, letting the individual American choose what they want. The third, however, is nothing more than yet another call for “change” being voiced by those who see opportunity in the socialistic proclivities of the new administration. Which in turn is a foundation for the fourth.
For you and me and Joe Blow down the street, what it means is even more insidious ecroachment on our Constitutional rights. Why? Because a few blithering liberal idiots who can’t drum up enough listeners to make it worthwhile for radio stations to carry their ravings now want the government to step in and force radio stations – independently-owned, market-driven businesses, mind you – to give them air time.
Just so those who aren’t listening to them now can have yet another opportunity to tune them out.
In this technology-driven, freedom-of-information day and age where anything anyone could ever want to know is available at the push of a remote-control button or through a few quick taps on a keyboard, it is the height of arrogence for anyone in our government to think it is best for us to have the “opportunity” to listen to anything. Seems to me that back in 1930s Germany another smarmy little Messiah-wannabe once thought the very same thing.
And we all know how that turned out. It was another “F” word.