The Republican Party itself has furthered this goal through its unfettered gerrymandering of voting districts, its accelerating suppression of voting rights and its unceasing efforts to ostracize Republicans who refuse to cooperate with the ever-expanding coup. Their goal: to keep the Republican Party in power against the wishes of the majority of American voters. The dark year began with a violent assault on the American Capitol by Americans inspired by the sitting American president. This darkness attempts to extinguish the light of science, of art, of freedom. Ours is both the literal darkness of December and the metaphorical gloom of the Dark Ages: permeated by ignorance, animated by inchoate fears and tribal loyalties, enforced by violence. Feeling the darkness descend, we beg for more light. After the year we’ve just endured, we recognize Goethe’s urgency. This is a rather loose translation of his actual final words - “Open the second shutter so that more light may come in” - but never mind that. NASHVILLE - “More light!” the German poet Goethe famously called out on his deathbed.
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