Archon Fung recently wrote a piece in the Huffington Post entitled “The Left Should Learn to Trust Americans,” which mocked Dean Baker and me for criticizing AmericaSpeaks and the “national town meeting on the deficit.” We both felt the presentation was skewed toward creating a right-wing set of recommendations, while Professor Fung claimed the attendees’ progressive conclusions meant that we had been alarmist – and didn’t trust the intrinsic wisdom of the American people (a mischaracterization he quickly expanded to include the entire “Left”).
That’s like making fun of the Fire Department after the fire’s been put out.
