“Tolerating the Intolerable” Kelly Schaefer

The United States has been here before. The current cycle of economic inequality and corruption, paired with the rise of right-wing propaganda, roughly coincides with the beginning of the Reagan era in 1980 and the introduction of “trickle-down economics” and the rescinding of the Fairness Doctrine. We have tolerated the intolerant and the intolerable for far too long, and our democratic “melting pot” experiment is once again at a perilous point of inflection.