a graduation speech that is worth the time to listen

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As the USA is added to an international watchlist for its rapidly declining civic freedoms (by an organization that has been doing its work since at least 1996), as we're seeing the first videos of government taking people without stating any cause during the apprehension, as this administration shuts down oversight that would give us trustworthy data on metrics from healthcare to economics, I thought that a word of hope might be in order.

I've queued this YouTube video at the relevant section. Just watch 4 minutes of it, until he moves on to another quote to lead the next section of his speech. This is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, delivering a commencement speech in 2023 to graduates at Northwestern University.

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The whole speech is good, but please just watch those 4 minutes. They are even more relevant now than in 2023. As I've said too often in recent years, "the cruelty is the point" for some people in positions of authority. I expect that we'll see more sadopopulism in the next 4 years.