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  1. folks,
    I wouldn’t worry so much about the tea party,
    I’d worry about people actually appointed to powerful positions:
    consider this would-be Goebbels:

    I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of
    the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring
    greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views. The First Amendment
    should not stand as an obstacle to democratic efforts to accomplish these goals. A New
    Deal for speech would draw on Justice Brandeis’ insistence on the role of free speech in
    promoting political deliberation and citizenship. It would reject Justice Holmes’
    “marketplace” conception of free speech, a conception that disserves the aspirations of
    those who wrote America’s founding document.
    –Cass R. Sunstein, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, The Free Press,
    1995, p. 119

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