This article came out shortly before 9/11, and I kept a paper copy of it around because it seemed ironic that soon after it was written we were in land wars in Asia. To be fair, the point was not that we would never wage war in literally the part of the world affected by the Medieval crusades*, but that American politics proceeds peacefully within the country, which was and is still true. This article makes me nostalgic for a time when politics did really seem low stakes, while also reminding me to be grateful that things are not much, much worse.
Politics seems to get more and more divisive, but this video also helps to remind me of what's really important. (There's lots of cussing.)
*Well, technically a little further east. Or a lot further east, if you consider hundreds or thousands of miles to be "a lot."
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