Reply To: Is the USA Democracy A Morally Just System

@Ex-CTLawyer.

Just so that i am clear, the idea that one or a few individuals can sway a powerful well establshed newspaper by simply choosing not to read it, has no merit. As long as the paper still has the broad audeinece it has the bully pulpit. Populists whether politicans or newspapers sway the public because of thier charsima and connections. They don’t sway them because they are morally correct. When a populist newspaper (or politcan) gets a hold of a large audience there is no way that a moral individual can stop them from inciting and enabling terrorists to commit the most viscous crimes. The danger of democracy is exactly that. Its that despite the fact that a voter or reader has the free choice not to read, If the paper holds enough sway vis populism and its bully pulpit then the majorty’s of the people’s choices will be immoral and worse result in heinous acts. Somethimes the only way to stop them is via having an authoritarian who gets it. (within reason). The best illustration is that Israel shut down Al Jezzera ( and somewhat the AP). I know the NYT calls that “authortatian” but you know that Israel is still very democratic and that Bibi is 1000 times more normal than trump despite his faults and ego. The NYT is a populist bully.