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Quotes from A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war — David Brin

born 1950 United States

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The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

That is, some did, way back in when decent republicans and democrats shared one aim — to negotiate better solutions for the republic.

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

A delusion that our ancestors disproved time and again, decisively — though not without a lot of pain.

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

It is the one uniform trait shown by every* vicious, obstinate and troglodytic enemy of the American Experiment.

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

This is not about classic left-vs-right anymore. (As if that metaphor ever held cogent meaning.)

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

There was one exception to the rule that all our foes have committed the Decadence Assumption.

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

I've long felt that the best minds of the right had useful things to contribute to a national conversation — even if their overall habit of resistance to change proved wrongheaded, more often than right.

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

Step back for a minute and note an important piece of psychohistory — that every generation of Americans faced adversaries who called us "decadent cowards and pleasure-seeking sybarites (wimps), devoid of any of the virtues of manhood."

A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war (2009)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Brin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.