'No Kings' Protests Are the Last Test of Democracy. Citizens Must Do their Duty.
Joe Trippi
For generations, we’ve spoken of America as a land of opportunity. We’ve defined ourselves by liberty, enshrined freedom in founding documents, and told the world that the rights of the individual are sacred here.
But somewhere along the way, we stopped talking about the other half of the bargain.
We stopped talking about responsibility — to one another, to our country, to the fragile promise of democracy itself. And now we’re finding out what happens when a nation built on shared purpose forgets that citizenship is not just a status. It is a duty.
For decades, both major parties slowly abandoned any notion of civic obligation. Politics became transactional. Campaigns were reduced to competing offers: tax cuts or healthcare, debt relief or deregulation. Voters became customers. Citizens became click targets.
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