The ascendance of an authoritarian President is a direct consequence of our failure to teach generations of Americans real civics and history. If you don’t learn the Bill of Rights, you don’t know to be appalled when it’s under attack.
The deepest delusion is thinking that life is simply about getting what we want; the deepest truth is thinking that life is about creating the good, the true and the beautiful.
MLK Jr. one said the American people are far more compassionate than the US Congress. How the government behaves sometimes does and sometimes does not represent the best of who we are.
I appreciate the statesmen and stateswomen who are putting the good of the country and the rule of law before partisan politics now. Any other stance is unworthy of elected office.
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer in the blood of our nation, and a cancer underlying many others. The great moral task of our generation is to fix that. movetoamend.org