Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Which Way?

If liberal democracy in America survives the current crisis, a crisis driven by hysteria, false narratives, historical illiteracy, envy, hatred, the purging of anyone with incorrect opinions, the toppling of statutes, and the erasure of history, we will look back on this period, as we do now on the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, with bewilderment, disdain, and condemnation, while many of those caught up in the frenzy will feel ashamed for having been so easily manipulated by those seeking despotic power over their fellow human beings.

If we should not survive the crisis this will be our fate:

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