This age craves a Lincoln-like figure, who can steer the country through intense polarization

Whether by melancholia or meditation, the leader needs to discern truth through aloneness, while still heeding the crowds (or the group chats)

I worry, though, that we lack the spiritual infrastructure to allow such a leader to emerge

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

I only recently got into US history (aka took a nap near a copy of A People's History of the United States) but I fear the preliminary challenge may be based on the average US citizen's ability to even identify Lincoln....

Yeah that's my worry -- we're going to need a collapse of the cozy times before people become literate again

Also, you're a well-read daschund!