Title: Release of the Stranglehold
Review: What really has Sunstein freaked is that liberal elites are losing their stranglehold on political discourse. The gates the gatekeepers have been guarding for fifty or more years have been outflanked. The American people are finding, much to their amazement and delight, that a wide range of sensible approaches to problem-solving that never even get mentioned on the nightly news are thoughtfully and exhaustively dealt with on the Internet by everyday people who possess rhetorical and journalistic skills easily the equal of 95% of the professional journalists out there.The Internet is a boon to true democracy, but a bane to the "expert, credentialist" culture. It should be amusing to watch these erstwhile champions of free speech (as long as it's their speech that is free) attempt to justify legislative measures designed to put-down the rabble. Sunstein's book is an opening skirmish. I expect much more sophistry to come.
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