Are Americans still capable of the same courage that Alexei Navalny showed?

People unfortunate enough to live under tyranny must swallow bitter poison between every breath.

That poison is fear.

Fear strips away humanity and leaves behind a panicked animal, hoping only to survive.

Fear demands obedience, conformity, sycophancy — the adulation of all that one hates most.

Each moment is an anguish of doubt.

Children know, or soon learn, that some topics of conversation will destroy their parents.