What is the middle ground between the truth and a lie? What is the middle ground between democracy and dictatorship?
An examination of the flawed premise behind the so-called "moderate" frame in politics, and how a warped notion of journalistic "neutrality" can aid and abet anti-democratic forces.
https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/wheres-the-middle-ground-between
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The idea that a people have a "right to choose" an authoritarian government seems to me incoherent.
If the people have the right to choose once, then surely they retain the right to choose again. Even if we have the right to choose to reject our own rights, our own rejection can't deny others' right to choose.
Given the premise that people have the right to choose their form of government, I don't understand how anything other than some form of democracy can be legitimate.
George Lakoff
Bob Wyman