First things first, I was trying to compose this on my iPad, because I had it out and convenient, but after the app crashed three times, I gave up. Is Google actually going to update the Blogger app, or are they trying to push everyone who doesn't use Android off the platform? Anyway, rather than continue to get frustrated, I decided to boot up my laptop and see if I could finish what I attempted to start using the rather useless app.
Tonight I had decided to reread or at least review Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." Of course, I can't get past the first paragraph before I find something pertinent to our current situation:
"...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
If the powers that be continually carp about "Fake News," eventually people begin to believe it is true, because it becomes "custom." All I can say is that I hope it doesn't take too long for Time to makes its converts, before our country progresses too much further down this road of single (dysfunctional) party rule.
The above quote can actually be interpreted quite a few ways and can be used to argue that the compromise our country has frequently used to govern effectively is wrong, and if you listen to many of those who support the far right Republicans, they do believe that compromise is wrong. I honestly believe compromise is pretty much baked into the Constitution, but then again I am sure there are some who would accuse me of "a long habit of not thinking."
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