Excellent demonstration of open constructive dialogue
Having the freedom to openly express our individual positions allows us to come together to help resolve misconceptions, but also by allowing for the objective evaluation of the facts. It is precisely for these reasons that the founders thought it necessary to codify such freedom with the 1st amendment, a declaration so supremely important that they codified the 2nd amendment to protect it by force of arms should it ever become threatened. Once we lose the 1st amendment, whether overtly or by stealth, the country is finished and then the only voice left will be by those who have the most powerful weapons.
“Socratic dialogue” as a written or spoken conversation between two or more people was fundamental for the birth of Western civil discourse credited to Plato in 400 BC. So, for the media to suggest or otherwise insinuate that dialogue is no longer an option for maintaining civil discourse in 2018 strikes me as the kind of BS propaganda someone might attempt to employ in order render the 1st amendment obsolete and further destabilize a country already polarized by social engineering.