Some people love living recklessly. Maybe you could even call it living a little dangerously.
And when they’ve skirted so close to the edge so often for so long with zero consequences, they become inured to where the edge actually is because it’s never had any effect on them.
They are safe from falling…or failing.
Or simply receiving a good smackdown, thanks to their exalted and protected position in the hierarchy of entrenched progressive resistance.
You couldn’t scoop them out with a shovel no matter what they did – they have winnowed that deeply into the bureaucratic fabric of the capital.
National Public Radio (NPR) and its mothership, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS), are prime examples of this species of survivor.
Every few years, there is some outrage. Every few years, there is a call to cut off the funding that keeps them rolling in…
