As a child of the sixties, it is so so so shocking to watch our country descend into a kakistocracy.
I was a high school student for one year in communist Romania, this soon after Watergate and Nixon's resignation. Our Romanian history texts recorded a distorted history. For example, that the US signed a peace treaty with Japan and then, after, dropped the bomb. I said that wasn't true. My classmates asked how I could know that? Maybe my government was lying. I said it was because we had newspapers, independent journalism. See, our President had to resign. And since then I have insouciantly relied on independent, inquisitive, bold journalism as a balance of power.
These next four years will be tough. And it's worth us looking inward to ask ourselves why it has come to this here in America. It'll be easy to get caught up in the daily swirl of chaos Trump creates. But if we look inward, if we take thoughtful action, if we deal with the root causes of problems, I think we stand a chance.
As a child of the sixties, it is so so so shocking to watch our country descend into a kakistocracy.
I was a high school student for one year in communist Romania, this soon after Watergate and Nixon's resignation. Our Romanian history texts recorded a distorted history. For example, that the US signed a peace treaty with Japan and then, after, dropped the bomb. I said that wasn't true. My classmates asked how I could know that? Maybe my government was lying. I said it was because we had newspapers, independent journalism. See, our President had to resign. And since then I have insouciantly relied on independent, inquisitive, bold journalism as a balance of power.
Go, Vanant, go!
These next four years will be tough. And it's worth us looking inward to ask ourselves why it has come to this here in America. It'll be easy to get caught up in the daily swirl of chaos Trump creates. But if we look inward, if we take thoughtful action, if we deal with the root causes of problems, I think we stand a chance.