"Whatever its faults, middle-class nationalism provided a common ground, common standards, a common frame of reference, without which society dissolves into nothing more than contending factions, as the Founding Fathers of America understood so well—a war of all against all."
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Replying to @antoniogm
"Ordinary Americans and their rulers are alienated now in ways unimaginable to the Northerners and Southerners who killed each other a century and a half ago, but who nodded when Abraham Lincoln noted that they “prayed to the same God.”"https://americanmind.org/essays/our-revolutions-logic/ …
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Replying to @cathode_ray8
Interesting. Lasch begins his tome with a similar rumination on how alienated modern-day elites are.
12:18 AM - 25 Oct 2018
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