Reply #21: We have to

[H2O Man]

make the foundation strong enough that we can safely go up to the next floor, and sweep it out.

People are discouraged. They have reason to be. The problems are real. But to paraphrase a 15th century poet-warrior: We are at times strong/ at times weak/ but we have at no time lacked heroes.

When a group is up against it -- and we are -- then every ordinary citizen who takes steps to protect the common good becomes an extraordinary citizen. We do not lack heroes: they are here, in our midst.

This is a hard time, and people are discouraged. But we are going to keep up the struggle, and we will win. I would not say that if it were not true.