2/ There are two dangers in being outraged: (a) outrage is an unpleasant emotion, and it distracts you from the things you DO have control over, like raising your kids of cooking dinner (b) outrage feeds into the narrative: "we" should all do something like Mr Smith going to DC
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3/ The genius of the American system over the Roman is that the Romans made it relatively clear that the people and slaves had no power, so they'd occasionally revolt, but the American system pretends that we're in charge.
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4/ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington coincidentally came out in 1939, during the height of the Progressive Era, and with FDR in his illegitimate and corrupt THIRD term as POTUS.
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5/ Hollywood was as much of a staunch principled critic of Cathedral power than as now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2zBU5XnEzs …
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Wrong. We get the government we deserve (the proof is that we’ve gotten it). We, the people, own this.
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so if i viciously attacked you, and successfully so, would you say it were deserved because it happened?
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