You can’t awaken someone who’s pretending to be asleep.
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The crisis underlying our political predicament. We all know the truth in this. If we’re honest with ourselves. We’ve all done it at some point. What does this have to do with politics? The stridency of attacks on everyone else’s hypocrisy being made by just about everyone. The blindness to our own past mistakes while holding our enemies solely at fault. One form of unacknowledged bigotry set in opposition to another. The depth of our predicament is not the result of a change in ideology — or “style.” It is in our unwillingness to wake-up.
You can’t awaken someone who’s pretending to be asleep.
You can’t awaken someone who’s pretending to…
You can’t awaken someone who’s pretending to be asleep.
The crisis underlying our political predicament. We all know the truth in this. If we’re honest with ourselves. We’ve all done it at some point. What does this have to do with politics? The stridency of attacks on everyone else’s hypocrisy being made by just about everyone. The blindness to our own past mistakes while holding our enemies solely at fault. One form of unacknowledged bigotry set in opposition to another. The depth of our predicament is not the result of a change in ideology — or “style.” It is in our unwillingness to wake-up.
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