Writings by retired newspaper publisher Stephen Waters
Lies are the death rattle of the the Democrat/GOP leadership Uniparty bent on bypassing the Constitution to permanently install top-down rule.
The Democrat/GOP Uniparty is less afraid of Donald Trump than they are afraid of you. If you catch on to their lies&emdash;to how much they disrespect you and everything your individuality stands for&emdash;they’ll have lost their one big chance to permanently steal the country.
Across history top-down rule has always failed because it cannot manage dynamic society.
The Democrat/GOP Uniparty is less afraid of Donald Trump than they are afraid of you. To repeat, if you catch on to their lies&emdash;to how much they disrespect you and everything your individuality stands for&emdash;they’ll have lost their one big chance to permanently steal the country.
Parties were never part of our Constitution but were built up over time to their current Uniparty excess to serve special interests.
They fear that you will dismantle their top-down rule and reinstitute bottom-up governance, clip the wings of Party leadership, reclaim responsibility, throw censorship into the dustbin of history, replace gatekeeper corporate media with Community Notes, restore honesty and integrity to election procedures, remove rule-making that agencies stole from Congress, institute zero-based budgeting, restore constitutionally required federalism, reject judicial creative law-making, return schools and curricula to local control, throttle excessive federal funding used to bypass states-rights, liberate the economy from excess regulation, end entangling international alliances, terminate nanny state programs used to buy votes, restore charity to the people where it belongs, and, finally and foremost, reject unworkable creeping collectivism that undermines and destroys character, individuality and the community individuals share with each other.
In early 2021, with 46 years in the business, I retired as publisher of the Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel
After five generations of family ownership, despite an unsettled economy, we keep on. We understand that although we may own the newspaper, we hold it in stewardship for the community.
Across my career, so many other small newspapers were purchased by media chains, large newspapers sold their integrity, and broadcast news outfits fell back on superficial entertainment.
They put journalism in this country at risk. The best antidote is for individual readers to arm themselves to recognize the danger to their community, culture, and society itself.