From The Lever on how we got here and what will happen if we don't change our politics.

[ancianita]

10. I hear you. Granted, "god help us" is a common expression.

But sometimes it's literally true that God helps us by putting us through suffering in order to purify our hearts and minds -- so we learn that venting, distracting, making excuses, being precise in analysis and thinking that precise analysis is accuracy, when it isn't at all.

Good parents teach their children lessons by instructing them, letting them know possible outcomes of their decision, letting them have their way so that when they inevitably make mistakes, they learn about judgment.

Yes, God help us.