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I think the collection to Andrew's left is really indicative of a very plausible way of dealing with all of...this (gestures broadly).

Unlike COVID, where what we were dealing with was an ignorant and pig-headed response to an outside (largely unpredictable) input, this is an ignorant and pig-headed initiative from what must be the stupidest people in the country. So whether it is or is not actually an effort to break the country to enable fascism, how would you know?

I remember watching the Berlin Wall come down and recognizing that the world order I had grown up in was irretrievably gone (Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now" comes to mind...). I remember feeling that although that event was confusing and disorienting, the world was probably a better place for it (I still think it probably was, although it obviously was much more of a mixed bag than we knew). I remember feeling a little pride that maybe our efforts and national policy had played a part in it.

Now I'm quite sure that our national policy is at the root of this. And all I feel is loss and shame.

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