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Chip Roy: I also have a quote here I was going to close with from Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn because it is so on point. I am going to…

On the recordFebruary 25, 2021
I also have a quote here I was going to close with from Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn because it is so on point. I am going to go ahead and do it now rather than closing with it because you just went there. He said this in another part of that book: What was drummed in our ears as political courses, we have now internalized. Live comfortably and all will be well ever after. We lie to ourselves to preserve our peace of mind. It is not they who should be blamed, but ourselves. One can object but cannot imagine what to do. Gags have been stuffed into our mouths. Nobody wants to listen to us, and nobody asks our opinion. How can we force them to listen to us? It is impossible to change their minds. Some will lose their jobs, but there are no loopholes for anybody who wants to be honest. Now, that may sound like a diatribe from a conservative talk radio host today, but it wasn't. It was him.
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas
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Feb 25, 2021

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