Where Are We Now?

Here’s a quotation from The Heart Mender that is worth some praise. A character says, “’You know, if all you have is a hammer . . . everything pretty much looks like a nail.’” Clever! I ♥ epigrams.

Then we read something many of you have read before. This time it is credited to Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, as early as 1787, so perhaps he is the originator of this discovery and summation: “’[A democracy has] an average existence of two hundred years . . . [progressing] through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; and finally from dependence back into bondage.’”

Where would you say the United States of America is today on this rise-and-fall mountain?

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