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Another Good One
With one major concern.
I suspect I find the tendency of some big-city authors to associate small-towns with bigotry almost as displeasing as they find associations of big-cities with anti-Americanism. Both sides should stop this polarizing framing. Now.
Tears to Remember - Judith Warner Blog - NY Times - 06 Nov 08
"On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1980, my 10th-grade American history teacher started class by unfurling The New York Times. She pointed to its triple banner headline: 'Reagan Easily Beats Carter; Republicans Gain in Congress; D’Amato and Dodd are Victors.'
'Save this paper,' she told us. 'This is the start of a whole new era.'
And it was. An era of unbridled deregulation, wealth-enhancing perks for the already well-off, and miserly indifference to the poor and middle class; of the recasting of greed as goodness, the equation of bellicose provincialism with patriotism, the reframing of bigotry as small-town decency.
In short, it was the start of our current era. The Reagan Revolution was the formative political experience of my generation’s lifetime, like the Great Depression, the Second World War or Vietnam for those before us. And in its intellectual and moral paucity, in its eventual hegemony, these years shut down, for some of us, the ability to fully imagine another way."
I suspect I find the tendency of some big-city authors to associate small-towns with bigotry almost as displeasing as they find associations of big-cities with anti-Americanism. Both sides should stop this polarizing framing. Now.
Tears to Remember - Judith Warner Blog - NY Times - 06 Nov 08
"On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1980, my 10th-grade American history teacher started class by unfurling The New York Times. She pointed to its triple banner headline: 'Reagan Easily Beats Carter; Republicans Gain in Congress; D’Amato and Dodd are Victors.'
'Save this paper,' she told us. 'This is the start of a whole new era.'
And it was. An era of unbridled deregulation, wealth-enhancing perks for the already well-off, and miserly indifference to the poor and middle class; of the recasting of greed as goodness, the equation of bellicose provincialism with patriotism, the reframing of bigotry as small-town decency.
In short, it was the start of our current era. The Reagan Revolution was the formative political experience of my generation’s lifetime, like the Great Depression, the Second World War or Vietnam for those before us. And in its intellectual and moral paucity, in its eventual hegemony, these years shut down, for some of us, the ability to fully imagine another way."