The Long View From 1964 5 of 6 – The Road and The Ground Beneath

Michael and Sarah Walker

The Long View From 1964 5 of 6 - The Road and The Ground Beneath

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What I am is a moderate. A person who believes in making decisions carefully, in recognizing complexity, in not burning the house down because you’re angry at the neighbors. A person who wants others to make their own informed choices rather than be handed a script.

You cannot navigate a broken road if you don’t understand how the road was built. Not the mythology of it. Not the sanitized version that fits a current political narrative. The actual road — the compromises, the failures, the corrections, the moments we got it wrong and the generations it took to get it less wrong. That’s not weakness. That’s the only honest map we have.

America’s history is short. Embarrassingly short by the standards of civilization. Europe measures itself in centuries stacked on centuries. Asia and the Middle East reach back to the beginning of recorded human organization. We are a snap of the fingers by comparison.