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The wrong response to the pope

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May 10, 2025
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One of the cruelties of democracy is the insistence that everyone must focus on events over which they have no control.

Everyone is expected to inform themselves even though they have no access to truth; everyone is expected to participate even though they have no power; everyone is expected to have an opinion even though they have no expertise.

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