"What America has become is not something Jefferson would recognize. Still, to refresh the Tree of Liberty, it’s gonna take more than tyrants’ blood. What is needed is not the violent resistance of overthrow but for a people to engage in a different kind of insurgency.
If what is left, a remnant, can reconstitute itself, it will enjoy a renaissance. Even if we call that reconstituted thing “America,” it will have become something else. And you and I will have to become someone else—someone more courageous and more resilient—which means aspects of ourselves will have to die, too, whether in a holy blaze or slow dissolution.
Then we can credibly ask: For what are we willing to live?"
For What Are You Willing to Die? - by Max Borders
