11-20-2021, 03:59 AM
We can't build low-cost housing, but we can instead build an oversupply of "McMansions" for the few people who can afford them.
We have politicians who exploit the bogey of Critical Race Theory that nobody has defined, yet we find politicians who create racist memes and exploit them.
We had a coup resembling the Bolsheviks seizing the Winter Palace in Petrograd yet millions of us excuse it because it was intended to go their way.
Parts of America back-track to Third World status yet many see nothing wrong.
We have millions of people telling us that Donald Trump was the greatest thing to ever happen to American politics -- indeed almost a plurality -- even if we recognize something terrible about him.
Crony capitalism is fine but 'socialism' is horrible.
We have politicians who exploit the bogey of Critical Race Theory that nobody has defined, yet we find politicians who create racist memes and exploit them.
We had a coup resembling the Bolsheviks seizing the Winter Palace in Petrograd yet millions of us excuse it because it was intended to go their way.
Parts of America back-track to Third World status yet many see nothing wrong.
We have millions of people telling us that Donald Trump was the greatest thing to ever happen to American politics -- indeed almost a plurality -- even if we recognize something terrible about him.
Crony capitalism is fine but 'socialism' is horrible.
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.