We practice fiscal cruelty and call it an economy. We practice legal cruelty and call it justice

[annabanana]

7. That is brilliantly written

We set the best instincts of ourselves in conflict with each other until they tear each other to ribbons, and until they are no longer our best instincts but something dark and bitter and corroborate with itself. And then it fights all the institutions that our best instincts once supported, all the elements of the political commonwealth that we once thought permanent, all the arguments that we once thought settled

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