# The Dying Citizen ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716hrXsB2ZS._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Victor Davis Hanson]] - Full Title: The Dying Citizen - Category: #books ## Highlights - America, then, is only as good as the citizens of any era who choose to preserve and to nourish it for one more generation. Republics are so often lost not over centuries but within a single decade.3 ([Location 127](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08W4ZZTTP&location=127)) - A sign of democratic sclerosis is a loss of confidence in the integrity of voting—to the point that it becomes seen as a futile exercise rather than a bulwark of citizenship. ([Location 144](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08W4ZZTTP&location=144)) - Among his bleaker notions—one seemingly supported by long periods of postdemocratic history—was that an always radicalizing democracy would eventually lead to chaos and then a swing back to tyranny. ([Location 161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08W4ZZTTP&location=161))