Our last best hope

By Darren Katz, Co-Founder

In this week’s Friday Five, we are focusing on one thing. Is the political, cultural, health, and economic crisis facing the US intractable? Our team at Amplia Group stands firmly in the optimistic camp. We don’t minimize our discord or challenges, but we also recognize that there are ways forward.

In an even more contentious moment, Abraham Lincoln wrote this in 1862: 

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We -- even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just -- a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

To that end, we encourage you to read this brilliant, optimistic, and long essay in the Atlantic by George Packer.

It is appropriately titled: The Last Best Hope for America.

Have a great weekend. And stay safe.