Good People Doing Nothing
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. --John Stuart Mill, 1867 No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. --Winston Churchill, 1947 The system is rigged. --Donald Trump, 2016 I can't help myself. I just have to read it, listen to it, marinate in it, until I dissolve into a puddle of despair. How did this happen? How did this republic hand over the reins of power to an authoritarian kleptocrat who, at best, will use the office of President to enrich himself and his family with the most corrupt regime this country has ever known? There's plenty of "at worst" I could append here: mass deportations of immigrants, the return of profiteering chaos to health care, another generation of conservative control of the Supreme Court, reversal of progres...