DISCUSS: Wanting Opposites at the Same Time

DISCUSS: Wanting Opposites at the Same Time

Charles C. W. Cooke on one reason why we can’t get to normal:

“We have a polity that wants low taxes and high spending, that wants a strong America and an isolationist America, and that wants mass deportations and to be a nation that welcomes immigrants. And so, this being a democratic republic, that is exactly what the people get.”

Discuss.

Going out of the political and into the individual realm, what are some other opposite desires that we have?

 

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