I am reminded of something from the Founder John Adams who abhorred slavery (but supported only "gradual" abolition) and understood the hypocrisy of the young nation's championing of the idea that "All men are created equal" "REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG, IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET, THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE." We weekly seem bent on proving his prediction true
As much as I disagree with Adam's approach to abolition, gradualism may have been the only hope of his time to create the "more perfect union." We are working now on a less perfect union, and our gradualism is moving us inevitably toward the cliff and the suicide one of our great founders thought possible. Sic transit gloria, buddy.
Ah, if only escape were as simple as Townes had envisioned.
It's a pretty great place, has always held a big piece of my heart.
If it doesn't, we deserve what we get, Ed.
Might even transcend that descriptive.
I am reminded of something from the Founder John Adams who abhorred slavery (but supported only "gradual" abolition) and understood the hypocrisy of the young nation's championing of the idea that "All men are created equal" "REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG, IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET, THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE." We weekly seem bent on proving his prediction true
As much as I disagree with Adam's approach to abolition, gradualism may have been the only hope of his time to create the "more perfect union." We are working now on a less perfect union, and our gradualism is moving us inevitably toward the cliff and the suicide one of our great founders thought possible. Sic transit gloria, buddy.
My hope is that the political actions of SCOTUS will drive Democrats to vote.
Terrifying.
Where exactly do we go from here, you ask? I'm thinking Colorado.
We are engaged in an existential fight for the soul of the nation, and for our very lives.