Boiling The Frogs
Boiling The Frogs Essay One: The Republic, Revisited. Joyce Vance Oct 14 This is the first in a series of ten essays revisiting my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy , which was released a year ago. I wrote about my goals for these essays here . If you’re just finding Civil Discourse through The Republic, Revisited series, I hope you’ll subscribe—it’s free—and read along with us. I’m sure you remember the story of the frog: Placed in the pot while the water is cool, he doesn’t notice when it’s brought to a boil ever so gradually. That was a reasonable explanation for what happened to our country during the first Trump administration. Then, he was reelected. Here’s how the frog metaphor lands with me now, two years into Trump’s second term in office: The danger isn't just failing to recognize what's happening. It's recognizing it and then gradually getting used to it. That’s what worries me the most right now, that we could become accustomed t...