Kurt Andersen's new book

[MMM_wms]

Started reading the book since it came out today here. "Evil Genius - the Unmaking of America"

Part Five (Make Ameria New Again) contains 5 chapters altogether, in which the author outlines how to "unmake the unmaking" which started for good in the 1980s. And he instills some hope within me. Mainly by citing lots of polls taken, which point to the fact that dumbification of the American public has NOT progressed as much as I had feared.

On the contrary, significatly more Americans now indicate sympathies for political concepts, which had been formerly propagandized as "treason" to the American Way.

I walked away from browsing Part Five with a glimmer of hope. That one day, America may indeed begin living up to its former great potential again.

 

[YDB95]

Literally every progressive idea in our history, from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage to child labor laws to the minimum wage to environmental protection laws to the minimum wage to Social Security to health care reform to gay marriage and many, many more, has been derided as "un-American" by the MAGAts of its respective era, yet eventually we won on all of them. Sooner or later, that will also go for getting over the economic Stockholm syndrome that has held sway since the '80s. I have noticed lately that the right has given it a rest with "if we cut taxes on the rich they'll invest that money and create jobs for everyone." Maybe a critical mass of voters has figured out just how much horseshit that is.

 

[MMM_wms]

Literally every progressive idea in our history, from the abolition of slavery to women's suffrage to child labor laws to the minimum wage to environmental protection laws to the minimum wage to Social Security to health care reform to gay marriage and many, many more, has been derided as "un-American" by the MAGAts of its respective era, yet eventually we won on all of them. Sooner or later, that will also go for getting over the economic Stockholm syndrome that has held sway since the '80s. I have noticed lately that the right has given it a rest with "if we cut taxes on the rich they'll invest that money and create jobs for everyone." Maybe a critical mass of voters has figured out just how much horseshit that is.

Key to your post, YDB, is - IMHO - the time it takes a critical mass to figure things out. And it seems current "boundary conditions" facilitate faster learning than usual. Would you agree to that?