“Democracies work best—and survive longer—where constitutions are reinforced by unwritten democratic norms. Two basic norms have preserved America’s checks and balances in ways we have come to take for granted: mutual toleration, or the understanding that competing parties accept one another as legitimate rivals, and forbearance, or the idea that politicians should exercise restraint in deploying their institutional prerogatives.”
― How Democracies Die
― How Democracies Die
“why is it all so beautiful this fake dream
this craziness why?”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
this craziness why?”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
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