I am not simply concerned about the state of our country. I am more concerned about the state of the populace. Many are not only unwilling to speak out, but they fear even receiving the messages of outrage from those with the courage to inform them, while meanwhile exposing themselves to the feared backlash from the very government that has created the outrage.

The present environment reminds me of the writing of Winston Churchill in his introduction to The Gathering Storm.

“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days. . . to show how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous, how the councils of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger . . . and how the middle course, adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster.”