Thedistinction between Dirksen's willingness to break with Goldwater on civil rights versus today's GOP lockstep is really stark. The part about ICE tactics and the 40% base overlap is something I hadn't connected before but makes total sence when you see how enforcement becomes performative rather than functional.
You speak of a time I dearly miss, when morality or citizenship were the driving forces that guided us. I miss that time. Here's a definition of citizenship I wish were mine, but I stole it from Allen Levi's book, "The Last Sweet Mile".
"What is citizenship but the unheroic call to dwell in a fallen world with an awareness that every small, infinitesimal life, lived with integrity or not, has potential bearing on every other small, infinitesimal life in the body politic? What is it but the call to work ethically in the marketplace and on the land, to be wise and generous stewards of whatever wealth God entrusts to us, and to live with kindness, compassion, and integrity toward others?"
Thedistinction between Dirksen's willingness to break with Goldwater on civil rights versus today's GOP lockstep is really stark. The part about ICE tactics and the 40% base overlap is something I hadn't connected before but makes total sence when you see how enforcement becomes performative rather than functional.
You speak of a time I dearly miss, when morality or citizenship were the driving forces that guided us. I miss that time. Here's a definition of citizenship I wish were mine, but I stole it from Allen Levi's book, "The Last Sweet Mile".
"What is citizenship but the unheroic call to dwell in a fallen world with an awareness that every small, infinitesimal life, lived with integrity or not, has potential bearing on every other small, infinitesimal life in the body politic? What is it but the call to work ethically in the marketplace and on the land, to be wise and generous stewards of whatever wealth God entrusts to us, and to live with kindness, compassion, and integrity toward others?"