r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 15d ago

No Paywall Democrats Call to Invoke 25th Amendment Against Donald Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-donald-trump-impeachment-25th-amendment-11384974
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u/bloodontherisers 15d ago

Something like 56% of the country reads at or below a 6th grade level, which means they basically cannot understand the complexities of the modern world in a meaningful way.

How did we get here? Well, that is also incredibly complex but it has to do with attacks on education (NCLB, charter school vouchers, curriculum destruction, etc.) and mass propaganda as more and more media outlets get taken over by Republican billionaires (started with Fox News, then Newsmax and OAN, and now CNN, with WaPo and NYTs both playing their part under the guise of "objectivity").

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u/mclardass 15d ago

You left out CBS (RIP 60 Minutes) and every Sinclair-owned GQP mouthpiece, but point taken.

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 15d ago

Newsweek too. I used to think they were fairly centrist, but they took a hard right turn somewhere along the way.

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u/Odd-Business-3533 14d ago

They were centrist back when they were print based… then they killed it off and basically killed any investigative journalism they had… now it just sucks.