Politics as Religion After George Floyd. This Isn’t an Orwellian Novel. This Is Your Country | RealClearPolitics
History informs us that liberty and democracy aren’t the natural state of humankind. A democratic republic is difficult enough to maintain, even in cultures with a history of ideals vital for nourishing a democracy.
Now, though, Americans are being encouraged to “de-colonize” our home libraries. So which books do I rid myself of first? Aristotle, Edmund Burke, “The Road to Serfdom” or the Bible?
Coerced fearful kneeling in fealty isn’t among democracy’s necessary virtues. Even American pop culture, even comic books, once recognized this.
But that must have been some other country, one that looked, remarkably, like this one.
Yes, it’s bad, but less bad than all this media stuff would have one think. Most Americans, by far the majority I would guess, are very much against looting and rioting, even as they deplore brutal and lawless cops. But not all cops are lawless nor are all protesters looters. The NYT espouses some idiotic ideas, and that’s bad, and many of PDT’s utterances are unhinged. Seems to me though at heart the country is still sound, but in any event, we’ll find out soon enough.