Like a Washing machine on “Drain”
The pro-regulation side in telecommunications now attacks the few independent players in Cable and Social Media who got there first and are now dominant. The influence of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google and the growing NewsMax TV is unacceptable to Progressive ideologues.
Here’s the problem: We freedom loving Americans don’t want anyone to manipulate social media, but internal attempts at regulating what people post online at Facebook and Twitter will introduce the same Leftist domination that afflicts our attorney class, universities and broadcast and cable media.
Four years ago, I observed that there is “New Class” equal in power to the “Military Industrial” complex that President Eisenhower warned about sixty-one years ago in 1961.
Also, sixty-one years ago in 1961, F. Clifton White started the “Draft Goldwater’ movement. In November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) had planned to run for President before the Kennedy assassination but realized that was not an option after the assassination.
So the “Draft” movement was not supported nor encouraged by Goldwater, and when it gained momentum and Goldwater was pressured into running, he locked Clif White out of the campaign.
Fifty-eight years ago in 1964, American voters had an opportunity to begin the reversal of Progressive political programs but, instead, chose to continue them. LBJ carried us down into the bowels of a “Deep State” with disastrous consequences.
We got further mired in Vietnam and LBJ passed immigration legislation designed to change the racial and ethnic composition of America.
Thirty-four years ago in the election of 1988, we elected George H. W. Bush. His nomination was assured in 1980 when Ronald Reagan chose G. H. W. Bush to run as Vice President and abandoned the candidacy of the former Governor of Nevada, Paul Laxalt. Those three dates, 1961, 1964 and 1981, assured the continued decline of the Constitutional limits on government.
In 2016, finally, the American people decided to do something about this and elected a Celebrity candidate for President who knew nothing about government. But even his commonsense policies could not reverse this downward spiral.
It is too late, and the freedom of enterprise of social media of Facebook and Twitter that is targeted for government control is the last aspect of Progressive control of cable, broadcast and print media, our colleges and universities and our churches.
Like a washing machine in “Drain” cycle, Twitter and Facebook will spiral downward. We have taken the last step on the road to serfdom.