“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” - Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
I planned to end this quote at “it was the worst of times,” but I realized that much of what’s going on these days is foolishness, and wisdom doesn’t seem to be part of the discussion. The late Congressman Elijah Cummings often said “We are better than this,” and dadgummit, it’s high time we started acting like it.