Revolution 2.0

Introduction Our common enemy as the world’s oldest democracy is not Trump, antifa, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, QAnon, or Bernie. The enemy is rationalization, the destructive thinking that says that we and others like us are in the right, and those who do not think like us are just wrong. And that being right is license to do whatever it takes to rid the world of the other side. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing Let me make a few stark points to kick off today’s episode: Whatever it takes is another way of saying that the ends justify the means. Not true. All means are ends in and of themselves. There was no justification for the months-long antifa and BLM violence in the Spring and Summer, any more than there was justification for the recent violence at the Capitol. The egregious and deadly attack on our democracy lasted two hours, with Congress safely returning to its duties, including certifying the defeat of an out-of-control President. Civil liberties are under massive attack.