At a time when we desperately need to think boldly about the challenges before us, we find many of our politicians arguing that we need to be less ambitious. We hear from too many in Congress about why action is difficult, why something cannot be done. Many of our government agencies have now been turned over to people who are actively seeking to undermine the mission of those agencies. And our national needs go unaddressed. It is impossible to try to freeze ourselves in the status quo, and even more impossible to return to some mythic and misremembered glorious past. We need to remain a
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