Dave Shaw

“The left has focused less on broad economic equality and more on promoting the interests of a wide variety of groups perceived as being marginalized—blacks, immigrants, women, Hispanics, the LGBT community, refugees, and the like. The right, meanwhile, is redefining itself as patriots who seek to protect traditional national identity, an identity that is often explicitly connected to race, ethnicity, or religion.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

“I hate that 74 million of my compatriots voted to keep in power our worst president, who convinced most of them that the election was stolen. The stab in the back will fester in their minds for years, a threat to the rest of us. But it’s too easy to be riveted to that disturbing number and forget the 81 million who voted him out.”
― George Packer, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

“a flash of lightning in the great darkness.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, God is Nothingness: Awakening to Absolute Non-being

“. Propaganda has become a substitute for ideas and ideology. Knowledge is confused with how we are made to feel. Commercial brands are mistaken for expressions of individuality. And in this precipitous decline of values and literacy, among those who cannot read and those who have given up reading, fertile ground for a new totalitarianism is being seeded.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle