Americans are forgetting that holding your own side’s feet to the fire is just as important, if not more important, a political exercise as standing in opposition to your political foes.
VERY well stated! I would even toss in that we seem to have lost the ability to listen thoughtfully to those who disagree with us -- dismissing the idea that there view may hold even a grain of truth, or the ability to help us understand our own truth more fully. This notion that we are infallible in our ideas is toxic to a free society that wants to become better and stronger. It manifests itself in coarse discourse and the pernicious phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” Thank you for this thoughtful perspective. gb
Confederate flags in Utah! Haha it always makes me wonder when I see or hear about those outside of the South. I saw those daily growing up, but that was in the old Confederacy. Not sure what someone’s point is in flying that flag in a state that didn’t secede in 1860.
Thank you and well said. I pray the insanity subsides somehow.
VERY well stated! I would even toss in that we seem to have lost the ability to listen thoughtfully to those who disagree with us -- dismissing the idea that there view may hold even a grain of truth, or the ability to help us understand our own truth more fully. This notion that we are infallible in our ideas is toxic to a free society that wants to become better and stronger. It manifests itself in coarse discourse and the pernicious phenomenon known as “cancel culture.” Thank you for this thoughtful perspective. gb
Spot on. Grateful for your gift with them pen, or keyboard.
Confederate flags in Utah! Haha it always makes me wonder when I see or hear about those outside of the South. I saw those daily growing up, but that was in the old Confederacy. Not sure what someone’s point is in flying that flag in a state that didn’t secede in 1860.