Reminder: we’ve faced terrible things before. We’re stronger than we think. https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/1178706821412016133 …
Actually, we're not as strong as we think. Too many of us believe our country invulnerable, and its enemies negligible. Too many of us believe we can afford to hate and fear our own countrymen far more than the foreign despots who cheer and spur our internecine conflicts.
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Too many of us suppose that we may with impunity place and maintain in positions of tremendous power and responsibility leaders we know to be incompetent, unsound, and venal. Like Romans in the days of Heliogabalus, we imagine our empire capable of surviving even lunatic rule.
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This is perhaps the most astonishing thing about our present predicament. Too many of us seem willing to view the duties of citizenship whimsically -- indeed even ironically, as though to take them seriously were a mug's game. We imagine it doesn't much matter what we do, or why.
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