In America’s most divisive era since the Civil War, Dolly Parton showed us a path forward

By: Ren Brabenec

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: September 8, 2026

Words: 988

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago

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In a 1988 interview with Bill Moyers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and intellectual Noam Chomsky discussed a common theme in his celebrated book “Manufacturing Consent.”

Chomsky observed that it is extremely rare within America’s class-based, hierarchical power structures for an individual to rise up out of the ordinary; enter a position of immense wealth, power and influence and then turn around and use that position to improve the …

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