This is the troubling trend

Submitted by sara (United States), Jun 25, 2012 at 18:08

The consequences of cancelling subscriptions are not necessarily the financial ruin of a progressively left publication. We see few incidences of this happening (Air America was one). Most of the time, they continue to receive funding from admirers, and even become more leftist to match the desires of the funders themselves.

This creates unfortunately a microcosm of the problems we have today. Realists who disagree with such crap published stop reading, stop interacting and they are left in groups with no detractors or common sense discussion (look at San Francisco or other liberal strongholds). They become yet another bastion of insular myopic leftist rhetoric that the agreeing readers and contributors come to believe is the truth, since there is no one left there to offer alternative views.

This is a problem and we have to speak our dissent, not just disappear!

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