He tell us that in a democracy, keeping abreast of current events was a citizen’s most important duty and that you could never start too early to be … - Philip Roth

...and then this amazing creature — to whom no one has ever said "Shah!" or "I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!"

There’s a plot afoot all right, and I’ll gladly name the forces propelling it—hysteria, ignorance, malice, stupidity, hatred, and fear. What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.