But I guess what I will always come back to is that we all know democracies are fragile. That has been in our public consciousness and understanding for a very long time.

I do not think the loss of our collective civic duty is a uniquely American phenomenon which only hurts our democracy.

if this is genuinely your take on iran rn then you should be banned from commenting on politics

Everybody wants to be the mourned martyr of the doomed resistance. Nobody wants to be just one piece of grit out of the thousands halting the machine.

The former fantasy depends on the enemy being insurmountable and not likely to trip over its own shoelaces.