Soviet dissident and Nobel Prize Winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in an address delivered at Harvard university in 1978, made the following remark.
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a decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the west today.
The western world has lost it’s civic courage

I thought this a very striking and accurate quote considering the past election, among other things.
If WE THE PEOPLE don’t straighten this freakin cluster mess out, who in the hell is gonna?
I wanna be able to look my grandkids in the eye!
The soapbox is open.
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"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden