Frank Herron
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ffherron.bsky.social
Frank Herron
@ffherron.bsky.social
It feels like this is the case:
“People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. [T]hey would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.”
“…The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.”
-Jefferson to Madison, 3/15/1789, quoted by A. de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, I, Ch 15
February 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM