People love big ideas. They give our life meaning, our daily grind purpose. Big ideas are also how our basic decency is given away to serve those in power.

It doesn’t matter what kind of big idea you are talking about. “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel,” is what Samuel Johnson observed. We have seen very recently how questioning someone’s patriotism was used to silence debate on a war with no purpose and no goals. Certainly, more people have died in the name of the Prince of Peace than just about anyone. How can these things happen?

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