The Pursuit of Happiness

“It is the fear of being called a coward that makes most men courageous in a crisis; but real courage, which is rare, consists in doing what you know is right, regardless of what men may call you.” (Sydney Harris)

Scene from Georges Méliès‘s 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Public Domain)

All the socio-political divisions in our valuable political discourse — guns, abortion, identity, immigration — reveal one clarifying consistency. The thing that the right-wingnuts are most pissed off about is…