The Great Clarification

“There was a time when an assumption that everyone was operating from the same dictionary was common. Adults assumed that schools, universities, and even companies were roughly the same as the ones they’d known throughout their lives. They thought that the political parties were on separate sides of a mainstream and that they weren’t in separate galaxies. 

 It was easy to cling to those assumptions because there were no grand pronouncements. The shift occurred quietly and in increments and by the time a large number of people noticed the “long march through the institutions, it appeared to be irreversible.

That’s when a major mistake was made. The dystopian utopians became too cocky and showed their cards. They thought that the hellish Trump was so “out there” and arrogant and tasteless that the average citizen would reach the same inescapable conclusions as the credentialed crew in the faculty lounge. They turned ‘lawfare’ into a political strategy and squelched freedom of expression.” 

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