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I guess I did kind of jump to a conclusion, but when I read “The dickish have taken over” I kind of thought of the Republican party right away.  Of course there’s also the “woke” and “social justice warriors” on the left who don’t understand that the cultural view was very different decades ago.

Wanted to give this some thought. I think “The dickish have taken over” was originally meant to mean the recent rise of authoritarian rule, but I still think it’s valuable to keep that in perspective of the larger trend toward democracy. In the nearer term, I’d say it was sometime around when the Fairness Doctrine ended and news became an extension of political parties on up to Citizens United, where non-millionaires pretty much lost their political voice. I have trouble drawing the line on what is a strategy and what is done out of a sense of purity and tradition that I don’t understand, one that results in a different view of fairness. I’m sure there are powerful people pulling strings out of sight somewhere, but I’m also sure there are people who see deregulation as some form of free speech. So, not much of a clarification here, but I wanted to add something to what I said earlier.