And we need to do something about them on November 7. But they're a symptom, not the cause. If we fix the cause, the symptoms fix themselves. That's why I began with those questions. They're a history quiz.
History requires the ability to remember.
History is the soil in which the seed of a people's life takes root. We've all seen films or read stories where a woman has a car wreck and wakes up with amnesia. She doesn't know who she is, or where she lives. She doesn't know her family or friends. And usually she falls into the grip of bad people who want to manipulate her confusion, until her real friends show up and her memory comes back.