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Ol Janx Spirit

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29. The silver lining here--to the extent that there is one--is that my biggest fear was not realized. My biggest fear...

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:29 AM

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...was that the new Administration would come in and not change things; ride the Biden economy to the mid-terms and work hard to gain as much popular support as possible to turn congress and the country even more red before leveraging that support and overwhelming numbers in congress into a more subtle but more entrenched authoritarianism.

Clearly this is not what they did. Fortunately for the future they did all of the stupid things they said they would and a lot more. This really does give us the best chance of saving democracy--as odd as that sounds.

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