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The New Dark Age, We Have Light
Ignorance is Darkness. It’s time to get lean and mean and rethink what the Dem base really is, or should be
Would be, could be. William Manchester, master historian, wrote a book called A World Lit Only By Fire, about the Middle Ages, a time when learning hid itself in monasteries, and the only light in the land came from flame, candles and fires.
Those times are long gone, fortunately, but darkness takes other forms. The good news is that it is a yin and yang thing, the dark will be balanced by the light. This morning I read two pieces in the Post, of all places, that focused on how a new tougher Democratic resistance might arise.
The first, titled Forget ‘they go low, we go high’: This influencer wants Democrats to get mean profiles a TikTok influencer, Suzanne Lambert, who, as the title says, believes Democrats need to get leaner and meaner and more than little mocking to the idiocy we face daily from the right. She has a sense of dark humor and I admit that I am drawn to her mean girl approach. We have played the good guys for too long.
The second piece, an opinion piece by Fareed Zakaria, simply says we should give up on old school progressivism and embrace the idea of a more enlightened country. This goes against the grain of old school…