… is from page 78 of David Mamet’s 2022 book, Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch:
Leftist identity groups now merge, now compete for power, united, finally, in a codependent submission to a lie. That is, that America is an evil land, but even the foolish Left wants to earn a living, and drive a car, and so lives in state-sponsored denial. This enervating state can be sustained only if there is no possibility of individual apostasy, which is to say of freedom.


Leftist identity groups now merge, now compete for power, united, finally, in a codependent submission to a lie. That is, that America is an evil land, but even the foolish Left wants to earn a living, and drive a car, and so lives in state-sponsored denial. This enervating state can be sustained only if there is no possibility of individual apostasy, which is to say of freedom.
