I continue to torment myself with wondering how we have come to this miserable state, we, America, a people in Walt Whitman’s words “of all classes and stages of rank—from all countries on the globe—engaged in all the varieties and avocations—of every grade, every hue of ignorance and learning, morality and vice, wealth and want, fashion and coarseness, breeding and brutality, elevation and degradation, impudence and modesty” (Loving, intro.
Thanks for the background on Hegseth, especially Druzin’s reference to the white Christian nationalist movement as “an American version of the Taliban”.
As you know, I have felt that way a long time. Many of these people genuinely mean well and cannot fathom that anyone who sees the world differently could be anything other than totally wrong or evil. How these people could see Hegseth or Trump etc as agents of devine salvation is beyond me.
Keep the faith…there’s another election in two years!
David. As always, well presented and articulated. Come Monday we will see where this tsunami takes us. Keeping the daith
David
Thanks for the background on Hegseth, especially Druzin’s reference to the white Christian nationalist movement as “an American version of the Taliban”.
As you know, I have felt that way a long time. Many of these people genuinely mean well and cannot fathom that anyone who sees the world differently could be anything other than totally wrong or evil. How these people could see Hegseth or Trump etc as agents of devine salvation is beyond me.
Keep the faith…there’s another election in two years!