Larry D. Lauer

Why is truth so difficult to find?

TV news is not helping. In this increasingly more commercial world TV reporters and anchors, have given in to the temptation to groom anchors as stars (Lester Holt, “the Anchor for America!”), stories to make more room for more and shorter ads, to make news more entertaining, and to talk faster in order to enhance the overall dramatic appeal. Wasting screen time (giving oxygen to) or quoting someone with simply an opposite opinion should give way to featuring someone who is spending their day focused on finding truth. Such people might be found in major and local print publications.

Fundamental issues to explore:

Should the news media help every citizen develop personal “talking points” to facilitate explaining truth as they see it?

Have there been politicians in the White House with a casual view about handling classified material, What evidence can you site that this is true?

Should easy voting be available to each and every citizen?

Is it possible to believe in “right to life” and still accept reasonable medical and emotional exceptions?

What should be these exceptions?

Should we accept that from the get-go the US has always been a diverse society, and build on that tradition?

How can we get control of the impact of climate change?

What are the gender issues that most concern you?

How do we control borders and develop immigration policy at the same time?

What do you think about redistricting?

Do we have the right to influence the impact of social media on young people, and society as a whole?

Is democracy worth saving?

What are your thoughts about removing books from libraries, to protect young people and parents from their content?

What factors lead to autocracy and dictatorships?

How do social divisions and anger lead to violence?

What else?

When autocrats won… democracies were lost.