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Great! I had to look up FTW, because as an English language nerd I speak “broken acronym”. Buildings Roman intrigued me, but then it got me a bit depressed. I’m not sure I agree that our great American habit of just moving on is a positive. To me this is a problem. I’ve thought for a long time that one of the underlying issues of our current polarization, is that we have NEVER resolved anything in our history we continue to argue and divide ourselves along the same lines from the very beginning of our existence as a country. Federal vs State, the Civil War has, for some percentage of people never been resolved.

You know there are states that still think they should have the right to secede, right? I’m not taking a stand on any of these issues, but not bringing closure to them may not be the plus you think it is. It’s more like kicking the can down the road. (Like we’ve been doing for years now on the immigration issue.

What if the next thing we kick down the road is the reforms we must have to protect our democracy from future con men and grifters?

My two cents - and we know what that’s worth! 😊

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