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The quote is a call for unity, so I felt it inappropriate to end by attacking my fellow citizens.
by pyuser583 1y ago
The quote is a call for unity, so I felt it inappropriate to end by attacking my fellow citizens.
- thomassmith65 1y agoIf my fellow citizens are tired of liberal democracy, and subjecting the rest of us to something worse, it warrants criticism. Whether criticism will improve anything, or just annoy people, is another story. There's not likely to be any 'Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?' moment in the current environment, so God help us all.
- pyuser583 1y agoYou're approach seems very zero-sum: if the other side wins, we lose. Some things are zero-sum, and maybe American politics has changed in a way that makes it zero-sum. But that's what it is.
- thomassmith65 1y agoThe other side won, and, going by your initial praise for the film quote, you lost. Perhaps our disagreement is whether this generation of Republicans values the quote's ideals or not.