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Originally Posted by Almighty Colin
You refer to an idealized form of democracy which has never existed anywhere or at anytime. Remember that John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts which permitted the government to jail anyone who criticized the government in speech or print.
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So that justifies this in your mind? You realize that this "idealized form of democracy" you're talking about, where the government does not use covert propaganda to fool the people, takes place is almost every civilized country in the western world.