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"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Monday, March 05, 2018

Today's Must-Read: Whither America?

A thought-provoking and strangely reassuring piece from Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo:

America is forever reinventing itself. Synthesizing today and yesterday and turning them into tomorrow. It was folly to believe a reality TV star could turn back time and recapture some halcyon yesterday. Yet many did.

They really believed they could turn back the clock to the halcyon days of Ozzie and Harriet. Key quote:

Instead of making America great again, Donald Trump is instead hastening "the very decline his supporters so feared," Reid concurs. There will be no return to a world where white men rule and all others know their places and remain in them[.]

That's the thing about history: it's a function of time, and no matter how hard you try to stop it, time keeps marching on.

Needless to say, read the whole thing: it's a good analysis of demographics and where they are taking us.

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