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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”

How many times in the last century has this quote been used or abused to define the current situation in America? I’ve used it several times myself.

Here’s a different thought on it. What if this vivid description was only the natural, intended state for America — to be in a frictional state striving for better angels among us?

Only now it seems the angels who are influencing things most are not the good, better angels. They are instead the dark sinister ones, bent on leading us into darkness with no means of return.

So it is only appropriate to think of all this as the mission impossible, in these times. Maybe we are meant to be in this state of flux to solve the trivial disputes, to add color and life to the times? Just saying maybe that is the point…