has NOT been effectively suppressed by the ungifted thinkers of the RW. Rousseau and the Philosophes planted the simple ideas of social government accountability and change at a time when education and education did not exactly
Ideas and truth act differently and with different sped and endurance than bold strategic lies. WE are having an influence of unmasking, altering and changing opinions and opinion making itself in America. There are few others and we are a new different voice than a contrarian pundit in the media competition.
Global consciousness is part of our Enlightenment roots. Most people world wide in every culture faith and region are coming to communal basic awareness and shared needs above venal and shortsighted goals, popular prejudices and old nostrums.
Of course peace, truth and democracy did not universally break out with THE Revolution two hundred years ago. We even have some monarchs and their miserable bourgeois equivalent still in denial of obsolescence.
The other side exhibits all the lack of creative positive influence, competence, culture, science and far-sightedness one would expect of senile decadence or childish use of arrogant privilege by spoiled heirs of unjust systems. it is is seen, hated and our ideas take hold. They only have the provenance of the brutalized and the criminal. They produce nothing. Things will change. It is only a matter of pain and imperfection warping our hopes.