We are living in Renaissance America. That is not a compliment. It's a regression.

Facebook  Harriett Lublin

"I've said it often and it bears repeating. 

We are living in Renaissance America. 

That is not a compliment. 

It's a regression. 

We have abdicated our rights as citizens because we couldn't be bothered to govern ourselves. 

We threw away a gift generations dreamed and died for, in the name of comfort and private pursuits that we are now going to lose forever due to our own neglect. 

In the past few decades we allowed representative government to mutate into an aristocracy. 

• Congress is a new class of nobility, the Supreme Court is an appointed priesthood interpreting sacred texts according to its whims, and presidents have power that emperors didn't dare dream of. 
• Our politicians see themselves as "leaders" and not holders of a temporary and revocable public trust. They see us as clay to be molded, problems to be solved, or sources of revenue to be milked. 

We are becoming subjects, and forgetting how to be citizens. 

This was never meant to happen. 

It shouldn't have happened. 

And the corruption of the republic, with its bankruptcy of spirit, morals and ethics, has been revealed amid the resurgence of war, plague, and superstition. 

Will there even be a reformation in our lifetimes?
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