The profound and lasting impact of the right-wing counter-culture (a.k.a. their "culture war"): We have become tribal, again, each running to our "Mullah" to tell us how to think, rather than demanding standards that serve everyone:
According to the latest Gallup Poll, Americans passed a milestone four years ago and have never looked back: More than half of us now have little or no confidence that mass media--newspapers, TV and radio--report the news fully, fairly and accurately.
- Robert Stein
- Robert Stein
Separately, Stein also comes up with this inimitable bit:
The new American embassy in Iraq is a perfect metaphor for our experience there. It’s unfinished, behind schedule, unsafe to occupy, more expensive than expected and, from the start, beset by bungling and possible corruption.
