Locking Out the Voices of Dissent by Chris Hedges

[SoCalDem]

26. It started DECADES ago.

The voices we were deprived of hearing over time, could have made us a better place.

They were pushed aside, or onto opinion pages of papers that were routinely bought out by conservatives...

or they retreated into academia, which has been under assault by conservative legislatures, judges & politicians..

or they wrote books that not many read

The PWTB realized soon after the WWII vets actually USED those benefits and created a middle class, that this would never be a good thing for them, and could not remain in place permanently.

It was imperative that pensions/unions/benefits simply had to go, and liberal voices had to be squelched.

Where the left erred, was when WE did not form "think tanks" and we did not aggressively maintain what we had accomplished. I am a democrat, but I also realize that we tend to think "Whew..we got THAT done", and then we relax our guard. Conservatives NEVER relax their grip or retract their reach.