We’re living through a bizarre epidemic of shaming and silencing, a crisis in which governments now routinely assert as a given that dissent is illegitimate and criticism of elected officials is akin to domestic terrorism. Standing at the culmination of 300 years of natural rights ideology and a Lockean pluralism that has functioned for centuries as a cultural presumption, we get
"Not a Meeting That Belongs to the Public"
"Not a Meeting That Belongs to the Public"
"Not a Meeting That Belongs to the Public"
We’re living through a bizarre epidemic of shaming and silencing, a crisis in which governments now routinely assert as a given that dissent is illegitimate and criticism of elected officials is akin to domestic terrorism. Standing at the culmination of 300 years of natural rights ideology and a Lockean pluralism that has functioned for centuries as a cultural presumption, we get