Mr. Samuels, as it turned out, was an honest journalist who really believed all that talk about the free press serving a watchdog role. In faithfully performing what he had youthfully believed was a sacred duty he was freely assuming, he first revealed what he is now explicating.
My thoughts on having read through it are that his analysis understates Elon Musk's role, even though he puts him first in honor. Musk's breaking Twitter free from the censorship program created the friction in the gears of the machine that recently, and blessedly, caused it to fly apart. Samuels comes as close as a man educated to speak to secular audiences can to referring to blessings in his shorter remarks on the role of Donald Trump's survival of the assassination attempt against him.
It's a very long piece, and because of its author it deserves discussion. For now I will merely note it, and perhaps we will return to it in the New Year.
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If it's a choice between people going wrong in different directions but some people getting it right, or everyone being required by law to go disastrously wrong in the same direction, I know which is preferable.
It was, indeed, a bit of along read. In all fairness though, it wasn't so much a political 'article', but rather an intense analysis of the rise and fall of the Obama cult of power. If you're mentally prepared to use more then the few brain cells required for most 'articles' on the net, and you can focus for more then 10 minutes at a time with due concentration, it is one of the most educational things I have ever read concerning our recent history and our political follies and evils. If there isn't a Pulitzer already engraved with Mr. Samuels name, there should be.
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