This is such an important post, Wayne. Thank you. One of my all-time favorite lines (from a wonderful film, called "An American President", is when Michael Douglas says (more or less), "I was so busy trying to keep my job that I wasn't doing my job". That is exactly what is now so often happening in the American body politic, and it is happening by catering to the worst instincts of the voters rather than to their best. What a change from,
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". I was also very pleased -- yet again -- to see how balanced you are in your critiques. I just this morning read an interview in the Belgian press of a Belgian essayist who noted how Trumpism is destroying the Republican Party while "Wokism" is doing the same within the Democratic Party.
Thank you! And yes, that Belgian essayist has current American politics just right.
My wife corrected me afterwards. She says he (Pascal Bruckner; you can check out his Wikipedia page), is French.
This is such an important post, Wayne. Thank you. One of my all-time favorite lines (from a wonderful film, called "An American President", is when Michael Douglas says (more or less), "I was so busy trying to keep my job that I wasn't doing my job". That is exactly what is now so often happening in the American body politic, and it is happening by catering to the worst instincts of the voters rather than to their best. What a change from,
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". I was also very pleased -- yet again -- to see how balanced you are in your critiques. I just this morning read an interview in the Belgian press of a Belgian essayist who noted how Trumpism is destroying the Republican Party while "Wokism" is doing the same within the Democratic Party.