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... Beyond Blue Part Two: Recasting The Dream | Via Meadia.

Already we are seeing the decline of the establishment’s ability to dominate discourse about ideas. The rise of a conservative counter-establishment and the proliferation of cable and internet news sources reflects a public demand for a more diverse and pluralistic national discourse. There is less respect for the social sciences and the privileged position of the “expert” on everything from medicine to financial and foreign policy; the privileged, above-the-fray pose of the progressive social engineers will come under intensifying assault. In this sense, the next phase of American life is likely to be more small “d” democratic and less big “p” Progressive than was the 20th century.