(2) I Will Never Stop Fighting for You. - By Liz Gumbinner
Yes. Is the future going to break our hearts? Yes. But around the margins, there is much we could do — on both the resistance and resilience fronts — and it is essential that we do it. Not just for society and the future, but for ourselves. Because only by getting on that bicycle and riding it, can we find our own balance.
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Defeatism won’t get you anywhere (except defeat).
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
We tend to focus on battles over specific issues — gun laws, immigration policy, abortion — but lasting change in the United States must go deeper than efforts to reform individual policy areas. It will require a majority of Americans coming to believe that what we have in common with other Americans is greater than our differences. For many of us,
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In the 2020s, regardless of whether President Trump is reelected, indifference coupled with cynicism will dominate. The crisis of this decade will spring from very real problems but will also be a crisis of faith in the Republic itself.