Censorship begins in small ways. In Democratic cultures, it progresses, like a virus, across the nation, unspoken, until it has become a norm.

The decision by FOX to remove Trump’s border blockade from a Super Bowl Lumber ad is another small but significant brick in the wall.

This is how a nation becomes Putinized–when it starts forcing this sort of censorship.

So easy, just a step, we’ll get the message out another way…

And soon, the nation is not saying these messages at all, except in whispers, and inside of their own minds.

When artists, writers, actors, musicians, advertisers begin to self-censor to meet the requirements of a new regime that demands repression of speech–because they “will show their protest in other ways,” because “by cooperating, they can preserve their viability to create change within the system,” they are making the self-justifying and self-serving compromises that have been made in many such regimes–and that ultimately result in compliance with repression of Freedom of Speech, and consolidates authoritarian power.

And at the supposed, illusory “top,” we have a President who refers to a Federal member of a co-equal branch in the Constitutional Separation of Powers as a “so-called judge,” and responds to a leader who kills journalists who disagree with him by saying: We kill people, too.

The implied threat is obvious and ominous.

Be brave, courageous, fully human.

Don’t censor yourself.

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