The agenda behind “Tort Reform”
[If you want to understand why the progressive movement has spent the last two decades fighting a rear-guard action on issue after issue after issue, and why the mainstream of American political opinion has moved so far to the right that Nixon would be a raving liberal today, as would your average European “conservative”, you need to read this article. It sums up, in a very neat little package, exactly what happened, and why, and what we can do about it, and applies it to a very specific and tangible example of how the right wing has successfully applied their strategies to severely harm a major progressive constituency, limit people’s rights, and win hearts and minds over to the larger right-wing agenda. -Thomas]
The Attack on Trial Lawyers and Tort Law
A Commonweal Institute Report
David C. Johnson, Fellow
October 1, 2003
Commonweal Institute
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