>>>>>Read a s history book -- any history book -- please OMG.
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>>>If you have read lots of books, you ought to be able to provide a single example of a dictator that follows your insistence that they all start out by attacking the press. Waiting, waiting...
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>> When Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazis controlled less than three percent of Germany's 4,700 papers.
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>>I'm not going to fight with you on this anymore John -- if you don't grasp it by now, you never will - simply because you just don't want to, not because you can't.
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>You and John should return to neutral corners, swig some water and take a rest on this subject.
>OK. Hitler started with little control of the press and wound up with 100% control.
>How did that work out for him?

Yeah that was kinda my whole point -- doesn't work out too well - for the leader or the country.

>The Soviet union had 100% control of the press and notwithstanding that someone named Gorbachev came along and turned things upside down.
>Sooner or later what people or governments do matters more than what people say.

Agreed - and knowing this and the results of waiting -- 'sooner' is the wise thing to do other than 'later' - when things are dire & it's too late. Thus...why wait? It's why we have a free press - calling it the 'enemy of the people' is step 1 (a very big step in this case) of you-know-what-happens. Couple that with attacks on the other branches of government - the FBI, CIA, etc...oh and stack the court system with your ill-gotten supreme court justice (who has no business being on it), threaten to put your opponents in jail if you win (HRC), ...etc etc this list goes on. - this is precisely how fascism gets started -- see the path here?