Likewise on other major issues America faces, where the Republicans seem unanimous on not raising taxes on the richest of the rich, who have lately tripled their share of our national wealth, (while the majority of Americans have been losing ground); and on not stopping the sale of our government to the highest bidder, by overturning the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
The ideal of American democracy has always been a "marketplace of ideas" in which different views compete for people's allegiance. But what this culture of dogma creates is no market but a monopoly--within which the positions taken on vital issues need contend with no competition from other views.
Unchallenged, even though history often proves those positions to have been morally wrong and bad for the country.
[This strategy is explained and developed in my new book, WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST: The Destructive Force at Work in Our World-- and How We Can Defeat It. Advance copies of the book, which will be officially released in the latter half of September, can be acquired here.
The ideal of American democracy has always been a "marketplace of ideas" in which different views compete for people's allegiance. But what this culture of dogma creates is no market but a monopoly--within which the positions taken on vital issues need contend with no competition from other views.
Unchallenged, even though history often proves those positions to have been morally wrong and bad for the country.
[This strategy is explained and developed in my new book, WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST: The Destructive Force at Work in Our World-- and How We Can Defeat It. Advance copies of the book, which will be officially released in the latter half of September, can be acquired here.
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