09-06-2021, 10:53 PM
When people have faith in government or recognize as a norm across lines of class, ethnicity, creed, and region that the old way of doing things is no longer possible (literally Gone with the Wind), the 1T is underway or at least nigh.
We are not there. The regional, ethnic, and class divides remain stark. One would think that COVID-19 would discredit the science-denying, reason-rejecting segments of America. Some communities have done far better than others in part because some have no clue.
We are not there. The regional, ethnic, and class divides remain stark. One would think that COVID-19 would discredit the science-denying, reason-rejecting segments of America. Some communities have done far better than others in part because some have no clue.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.