My only real purpose is to point you to this piece. The person who wrote it thinks about things in a different (and better) way than most anybody else I know. He is typically more optimistic than me, which is helpful. I will share just a couple of excepts below.
Robert Mueller seems to know that you can’t force-feed a moral realization. You can direct—or try to direct—another person’s attention to a text that draws on the testimony of credible witnesses, but you can’t compel interpretation. You can’t tell someone else what to make of it. In a genuinely free country, the question of what we do with what we know is on us. It can’t be deferred to someone else.
Civilization, after all, sometimes depends upon reading a sentence a second time to oneself slowly. Even though Mr. Mueller declined to read the words of the report aloud, lest anyone’s animus get unhelpfully aimed at his own person, the investigation that we the people paid for was given a hearing, and attentiveness to detail (citations, page numbers, endnotes) held sway in the American bandwidth for hours. The revolutionary act of literacy is not, generally speaking, televised, but this week was different.
There’s an eloquent body-slamming of Chuck Todd you might enjoy.
It is a call to action and a call to thoughtfulness, which I suspect David would say are the same thing.
We become what we normalize, and we become what we abide. It is time to feel our own weight and our own responsibility in fostering the possibility of America for ourselves, others and future generations.