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George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff. I’m reminded of a quote by Isaac Asimov from his “Foundations” book series.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

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Kerry Truchero's avatar

What’s it gonna take? You realize, of course, that our American political cycle is a story of Republicans shitting the bed and Democrats doing the laundry. Clinton cleaned up after Reagan and Bush. Obama had the Herculean job of cleaning up after Bush/Cheney’s war and recession. Uncle Joe had to fix the place after a mismanaged pandemic response killed a million of us while the rich got obscenely richer and everyone else suffered. Now, we’ve got that asshole clown and his deranged cult threatening to reprise their reign. If the electorate can’t (collectively) recoil in horror and reject this oncoming train wreck, then it richly deserves the consequences. And those consequences will be ugly. Ugly indeed. And that’s maybe what it’s gonna take.

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