Marion

“The one piece of information that best predicts whether Mr. Trump won or lost a county in November 2016 was the degree of opioid abuse.”
― Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

“Fascist politics invokes a pure mythic past tragically destroyed. Depending on how the nation is defined, the mythic past may be religiously pure, racially pure, culturally pure, or all of the above.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“Fascist politics can dehumanize minority groups even when an explicitly fascist state does not arise.”
― Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

“The Nazis treated health care as a way to divide the humans from the subhumans and nonhumans. If we see others as bearers of ailments and ourselves as healthy victims, we are little better than they. If we truly oppose the Nazi evil, we will try to think our way to its opposite, to the good. A part of that effort is to understand that all humans are subject to malady, and have an equal claim to care.”
― Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary