Responsibility must be shared by anyone who has not started a newspaper, substitute-teach or volunteer in a public school, or some similar activity.
From the article: “We may have won the intellectual battle,” [Milton Friedman ] said, “but in practical politics, it’s difficult to see that we’ve had any effect at all.”
As many hate for me to point out, sitting in an ivory tower or think tank and publishing another white paper is merely singing "Sack of Ilium" and strumming the lyre. The left has quite effectively taken over most of the institutions that maintain and convey our culture and ideas. Show business? Of course. News Media? Check. Public Schools? You betcha!
The fact is, today, even highly educated (in a relative sense) people are quite ignorant of these issues, and further, don't see why they should have cause for concern.
The future is scary...very scary.
oops on the tense goof in first sentence.