Reading this, I remember that I’m an American - an inheritor of the most extraordinary, the most crucial, the riskiest, and the most complex experiment in human society and government ever attempted - a nation born with, among other ideas, the then revolutionary notion that when Church and State were one, which had been far more the norm than not for over 4 millennia, it was actually not a good thing. I am of a nation to which millions fled to avoid that concept, only to find the idea not forgotten but only held at bay by a single phrase in one paragraph in an utterly revolutionary document.
A true understanding of that document ought to be the single most liberating force in history. Instead it has been discarded by the current leader of my country for much the same reason that motivates those who have so repressed the country from which this agonized letter comes. We ought to read this letter then as a warning as well as a plea.
As I read your first paragraph I felt uplifted by the sentiments that you expressed as a summation of the uniqueness of our history and heritage.
I was then so disappointed and letdown that you could not refrain from that cheap swipe at our president at this time when I hoped that we could perhaps all come together and agree that the prospect of this evil Iranian regime successfully getting a nuclear weapon was something that none of us would countenance despite our differences on multiple other issues. Instead, TDS again rears its ugly head. The tendency toward authoritarian and actions consistent with an imperial president under Trump pale in comparison with those of the Biden administration . I abhor equally the tendency of both administrations to bypass the role of Congress and ignore the courts and the self righteous rationalizations both Biden and Trump have employed when it suits their purposes.
Reading this, I remember that I’m an American - an inheritor of the most extraordinary, the most crucial, the riskiest, and the most complex experiment in human society and government ever attempted - a nation born with, among other ideas, the then revolutionary notion that when Church and State were one, which had been far more the norm than not for over 4 millennia, it was actually not a good thing. I am of a nation to which millions fled to avoid that concept, only to find the idea not forgotten but only held at bay by a single phrase in one paragraph in an utterly revolutionary document.
A true understanding of that document ought to be the single most liberating force in history. Instead it has been discarded by the current leader of my country for much the same reason that motivates those who have so repressed the country from which this agonized letter comes. We ought to read this letter then as a warning as well as a plea.
As I read your first paragraph I felt uplifted by the sentiments that you expressed as a summation of the uniqueness of our history and heritage.
I was then so disappointed and letdown that you could not refrain from that cheap swipe at our president at this time when I hoped that we could perhaps all come together and agree that the prospect of this evil Iranian regime successfully getting a nuclear weapon was something that none of us would countenance despite our differences on multiple other issues. Instead, TDS again rears its ugly head. The tendency toward authoritarian and actions consistent with an imperial president under Trump pale in comparison with those of the Biden administration . I abhor equally the tendency of both administrations to bypass the role of Congress and ignore the courts and the self righteous rationalizations both Biden and Trump have employed when it suits their purposes.
Thank you for setting it straight. May the outcome be your mother's wishes!