You really have to wonder what these folks would have been like when the whole country was sacrificing to win the First or Second World Wars. The world is so fortunate that there was a better generation of Americans around when we needed them.
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We need to remember that there are always people like this. They were very active before we entered the war in Europe. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor enraged Americans and tipped the balance away from appeasement on any front. Without that, we might have just sat it out.
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/2 In some ways, Japan's attack clarified the argument and bolstered the work of those trying to persuade the American public of the necessity to intervene in Europe.
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/3 The responsibility to persuade is something that seems to have been forgotten from time to time in American liberal politics.
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This is a people’s problem. They gave us a government that we were responsible for. But people would rather discuss anything other than their civic connections and common responsibility. Sad.
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Why are so many people unable to process who the president was in 2020?
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Just listened to Lis Smith on the New Yorker podcast making this same argument about Democrats needing to do an apology tour for being too tough during the early COVID days. Wild shit.
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