Repeating Newt?

A news article found in the Washington Post today has Newt Gingrich promoting a future governing majority for the Republican Party. He promotes this idea by claiming that the larger media organizations have a liberal bias that they use in conjunction with bureaucratic "mole" in the federal bureaucracy to manipulate voters. He then points out that a message that is "repetitive" is the best way to maintain voter beliefs in voting Republican.

While promoting a political viewpoint and a future aspiration are both excellent forms of democracy in action. It is somewhat "chilling" to encounter the idea of using "repetition" to systematically inculcate voters with a set of beliefs and ideas. Democracy is for the free flow of all ideas. Political viewpoints need to based in fact and compared to other different ones. That is democracy. Repetition is rote learning which is fine when one is teaching the alphabet, but is alien to formulating words in order to engender the free flow of ideas.