In the end of the Obama Era, a trend began to germinate in the bibliosphere of a certain social cohort — here to be called the Liberal-Identifying Bourgeoisie (LIBs) — wherein more conventional themes of liberal discourse — themes such as skepticism of war, protection of civil liberties, and economic justice — were superseded by what amounted to a collection of tropes, such as Decency, Empathy, and Compassion. This tracked the erosion of traditional liberal concerns from LIB discourse, to the point where today a steady stream of polls show the LIBs, far more than any social strata, support with strong majorities both America's involvement in Ukraine and private and government-ordered censorship.
While many blamed the Trump phenomenon for this turn of events, the COVID experience of 2020 reveal this explanation to be at best incomplete. Therein, the LIBs, far more than anyone else, clamored for drastic emergency exceptions from constitutional norms. The same pattern arises again with the controversies around censorship. The LIBs are consistently the most eager to suspend or attenuate constitutional guarantees, and the most vocal proponents of "emergency exceptions" to constitutional protections............To Read More.....
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