In his book, “BIAS”, former CBS news reporter Bernard Goldberg claims that there is a “liberal bias” in the national news media. He writes “The bias I’m talking about, by the way, isn’t so much POLITICAL bias of the Democratic-versus-Republican sort…For me that isn’t the REAL problem. The problem comes in the big social and cultural issues…abortion, gun control, feminism, gay rights, the environment, school prayer.”
You will notice that nowhere in his list do any of the economic and financial struggles of the poor, the near-poor, the lower classes, and the middle classes appear. He is one of a number of “Conservatives” who seem to suggest that the “liberals” of the 1960s were primarily concerned with the “bread-and-butter issues” of the survival of these groups as well as with expanding the federal government safety-net programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps), while the “progressives” of 2020 seem to be primarily concerned with the social, “identity-politics”, and “culture-wars” issues
To the extent that this is accurate, you can put me down as siding more with the “liberals” of the 1960s than with the “progressives” of 2020.
I do care about all of those other issues, but as someone who feels that he is an American citizen before anything else, I want everyone to be able to have their survival needs met and to be able to pay their bills.
NOTE: This piece is dedicated to my hero–Suffragist Alice Paul.
