To Every Thing There is a Season

Let me share something with you I just read:

“Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else’s version of themselves—anyone else’s version!” and

“The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law—they disgrace democracy by claiming that what they do they do for democracy!”

Though it could have been an op-ed in today’s paper or a rant from one of many angry Democrats, it’s actually a passage in A Prayer for Owen Meany, published in 1989, lamenting the arrogance of the political scene in the United States. Guess history does repeat itself. Oh! Or maybe it never went away.