Here’s a free speech question. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his “Libtards” and “Econazis” were part of an organized, strategic effort to dismantle American democracy and replace it with whatever you call what the country has now. We were all blasted with this evil, lying propaganda for decades. Civil society was destroyed. Good leaders were smeared with lies. Important public institutions were dismantled. Rule of law was removed. Etc etc etc. We all saw it happen. We all live in the world that created.

At the same time, related propaganda prevented us from dealing with the CO2 problem. Even as scientists warned us oil and coal companies pumped millions and millions into propaganda convincing people there was no problem, discrediting scientists, and fueling an increase in CO2 emissions.

Now corruption is endemic. A few wealthy people are ending up with all the wealth and lower for themselves and the country is an autocracy rules by one of the worst people in our history. We have oligarchs soaking up all the wealth. War is spreading across the world. And the climate crisis is upon us and growing in severity each year.

And all that is accelerating.

So does freedom of speech cover what was done to us? If so, can there ever be functioning democracy run for the good of the people?