Last night Susan and I watched an old Steve McQueen movie, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, based on a play by Ibsen, with help from Arther Miller and others.
See if you can find it on cable. The story is a parable for our times.
A doctor in a small town in Norway discovers that the water in their spa has been poisoned by a tannery. The spa and the tannery are the main employers in the town, so the mayor orchestrates an attack on the doctor and his family. It's not that the majority don't believe the doctor. They do. But his message is inconvenient. Almost everyone turns against him, including the liberals.
This morning Senator Sanders withdrew from the Presidential race. His candidacy was going nowhere, not because he wasn't believed but because the truth is so damned inconvenient. The majority of Democrats had turned Sanders into AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. (How did Ibsen know about this more than a hundred years ago? We are the same now as we were then.)
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