The First Amendment is Blocking Consensus

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The dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing. It is part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue.

It’s really hard to govern today. The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn’t a fact have kind of been eviscerated, to a certain degree. And people go and self-select where they go for their news, for their information. And then you get into a vicious cycle.

So it’s really, really, hard, much harder to build consensus today than any time in the 45, 50 years I’ve been involved in this. You know there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have some accountability on facts, etc.

But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.

So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.

John Kerry
September 2024
John Kerry Says the First Amendment is Getting in the Way of Online Censorship (msn.com) and
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“Hammer it out of existence.” It should be no surprise that if your opposition is silenced, you can get “consensus”.

Spoken like a true totalitarian.

Prepare appropriately.

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8 thoughts on “The First Amendment is Blocking Consensus

  1. The fact that Kerry holds the notion of “referees … to determine what is a fact and what isn’t a fact” shows he’s a mentally defective totalitarian. We do not have such alleged “referees” and have not had them ever since the scientific method took hold. Yes, back in the dark ages when “truth” was determined by shamans, you could hold this notion. Those were the days of the “truth” that the Earth is flat.
    The fact that Kerry is pushing this treasonous bunk in the World Totalitarian Club meeting is not too surprising.

  2. Now, if you want to talk about social media problems, perhaps the one to mention is TikTok, owned and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and quite clearly intended to cause mental and physical injury to a large number of Americans, especially American youth. Not too surprising, from the country that gave us the Wuhan Flu and fentanyl.

    Given that the CCP controls it, I don’t suppose that Kerry has any objection to TikTok. It’s only ones owned by free people that he doesn’t approve of.

  3. “The referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn’t a fact have kind of been eviscerated, to a certain degree.”

    The major media, to an extent, used to referee their own reporting. There were exceptions of course (exploding Chevy pickups) but for the most part reporters actually attempted to be objective. Now reporters aren’t even called that – from the lowliest recent college graduate, called an “analyst” or “correspondent” to the multimillionaire Madow – they all have an axe to grind and masquerade it as “news.” The referees of fact vs fiction apply a simple test – Republican/conservative source = misinformation. Democrat or socialist source = gospel truth.

  4. That traitor has been violating his sworn oath and stabbing his countrymen in the back since the early 1970s when he interfered with negotiations between our government and the Communist Vietnamese. He’s LONG past due for a prison cell or dirt nap

  5. Sounds like Mr..Kerry needs to quadruple down C19 vaccine/boosters? All vaxs actually. And a large adjustment of his psycho meds. (He should be drooling saliva rather than crap out of his mouth.)
    As already mentioned, it doesn’t take a large amount of critical thinking skills ask, Whom decides truth? What is truth? said Pilate to Jesus.
    Which has been the question the commies have used for years to cast doubt on everything they didn’t want to argue.
    At least these people are easy to locate. Their arrogance cast a stench for miles.

  6. The problem couldn’t possibly be bad decisions, official lies, and poor leadership. Oh, no. Must be that pesky first amendment.

    What if we took away free speech, but TPTB still had no credibility?

  7. The commies are no longer even TRYING to hide their plans. And the ONLY
    method to stop them that will actually work is the one nobody wants to admit.
    Kill them all. It’s the only way. Nothing else will work. It’s what they have planned for those who oppose them. So why shouldn’t we embrace it as a solution.

  8. It appears that the Commies in Power are uniting in seeking to drive America to implementing The Solution we are trying so hard to avoid.

    That is quite bothersome.

    I am very much aware that they know not whereof they speak; were That Solution to be implemented “Scorched Earth” would be barely a starting point. That would not bode well for anyone, nor for the continued life of a Constitutional republic. Unfortunately, I see declining opportunity to avoid it because it seems they will have it no other way.

    I worry greatly about November 6th; that dawn may mark the end of much that mankind has accomplished on this planet, for as America goes so goes most of the rest of the world; we do not need another day That Will Live in Infamy.

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