Let's remember this on Tuesday. This clip from 1947 (nearly seventy years old, and still prescient) remains worth heeding:
Vote wisely. There are people who want to take away your freedom and dignity. At first those con artists threaten only to take away someone else's freedom and dignity.
Be a real patriot. Defend the dignity and freedom of fellow Americans who may have very different skin tone, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation...or, like me, a disability. November 8 will be the easiest and least expensive, and perhaps most decisive, opportunity for you as an American to do the most patriotic deed possible. Nobody needs take a bullet, go down with a ship or plane, or dodge an IED this time.
Vote wisely. There are people who want to take away your freedom and dignity. At first those con artists threaten only to take away someone else's freedom and dignity.
Be a real patriot. Defend the dignity and freedom of fellow Americans who may have very different skin tone, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation...or, like me, a disability. November 8 will be the easiest and least expensive, and perhaps most decisive, opportunity for you as an American to do the most patriotic deed possible. Nobody needs take a bullet, go down with a ship or plane, or dodge an IED this time.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.