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Making America Whole Again

1/12/2021

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By Mary Ellen Brooks

​Mary Ellen is an adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA.

Making America Whole Again
All morning I’ve been hearing liberal media figures assert that the terrorist attack on the Capitol was all about racism. Pointing to the disturbing discrepancy between the aggressive police treatment of peaceful BLM demonstrators and the tolerant, if not encouraging, treatment of violent white, male Trump supporters, the media on the left are underscoring the breadth and depth of racism in the United States.
 
But is the fact that America has a serious race problem really the “breaking news” here? I think not. 
 
The truth is that the social dynamics behind the attack on the Capitol are far more complex than we are being told. The terrorists who attacked the Capitol are indeed white racists, but they are only the outward face of the problem. Behind them and largely behind the scenes are powerful individuals and groups who have seized on American racism and are using it as an effective tool to achieve their own goal of maintaining and increasing wealth and power. 

Winning Control 
As threatening as they were with their bombs and firearms, the thugs who stormed the Capitol are not the most dangerous people in America. They were useful idiots doing the work of some very smart, obscenely wealthy people who knew that in a democratic system, they would never be able to win over the average American voter by telling the truth— by saying “vote for us, because we are the candidates who will take even more of the Nation’s wealth out of your pocket and put it into mine.” No, that message would never sell. To win ultimate control over U.S. and, indeed, global wealth, they had to find a wedge issue that would induce a large enough segment of the American population to vote against their own best interests and endow the upper echelon with enough power to overthrow our democratic republic. 
 
Because let’s face it, not everybody in the US wants to uphold and protect our form of government, a government endowed with the ideological right and justification to redistribute wealth from the bloated rich to the starving poor. The democratic system of government that the founders and framers of the Constitution bequeathed us rests on the belief that all people, having been created equal, deserve the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but intrinsic to this foundational belief is the need to redirect money and resources from the highest echelons of wealth and privilege to the middle and lower classes when excessive wealth is concentrated at the top, and the gap between the wealthy and the rest of society is too great. The rich could never get behind the idea of Robin Hood running the government. 
 
Despite their words to the contrary, the wealthy deplore a “trickle down” economic system if the taxing of the rich is the means whereby wealth flows to the middle and lower classes. They much prefer a system that cuts their taxes, claiming— quite falsely—that the added money in their pockets will fuel the economy and “trickle down” to others. 

Of, By, and For the Rich
What the wealthy much prefer is not a democracy of, by, and for the people, but rather a plutocracy— a government of, by and for the rich, and Donald Trump, though flawed in many respects, promised to give them what they wanted and almost achieved. 
While Trump identified as being one of them in terms of class, wealth and power, he looked to them like he might just be the right man for the job they wanted done. Sure, he lacked the polish and sophistication of the upper class, and sure, he probably wasn’t really all that wealthy (at least not until he used the Presidency to accumulate wealth), but Trump brought to the battle some important assets that the rich and powerful thought they could use to their advantage. ​

​Importantly, Trump was both a genuine racist and an actual reality tv star who knew how to dupe average white Americans into believing that he was a successful businessman with a sincere populist message. While crossing his fingers and winking at his rich supporters, he told out-of-work miners in West Virginia that he’d bring back coal mining, and he promised unemployed factory workers in Illinois and Michigan that he’d bring manufacturing back to the country and to their states. Sure, he was lying to them—promising them the impossible— but while his wealthy benefactors saw through his deceit, his working class supporters believed his lies and loved him all the more for telling them what they most wanted to hear.
 
Trump managed, then, to win support both from the ultra-wealthy who expected him to do their bidding, and from the much larger population of average, white, working-class Americans who have been watching their own economic strength erode increasingly over the past 50 years and who genuinely believed that Trump was going to restore their notion of the American Dream. He was going to give them back their jobs, their pay raises, their new cars, their nice homes in the suburbs. He was going to “make America great again.” 
 
Cowardice or Avarice?

Meanwhile the richest of the rich knew what Trump was really doing. If you wonder why Republican Senators and Representatives stood by and did nothing to stop Trump from overturning our democratic system, the reason was not cowardice. It was avarice. Most of them had immense wealth to protect, and those few who weren’t wealthy believed they’d secure wealth and power by swearing loyalty to Trump and to the people who represent his REAL base—the ultra-rich in the US and abroad (including people like Vladimir Putin). 
 
So yes, we have a race problem in the US, but what we’ve been seeing is not a return to Jim Crow racism. It’s worse than that. What Trump has been doing is to harness racism as a tool to seize ultimate power, and that, I would propose, is slavery re-envisioned, slavery reinstated.
 
If we want to prevent the history of the past four years from repeating itself, the way to begin is by doing what we can (and what we must) to fight racism. The way to begin, I believe, is by taking on institutional racism. The choices of people that President-elect Biden has made to join his leadership team are right on the mark in terms of diversity, and philosophically they appear to be fully prepared to lead us by policy and by example toward a country where people are judged by “the content of their character”— not by the color of their skin or the size of their portfolio. Though we are a nation deeply divided, if we can begin to remove that which divides us, racism, then we can reunite as a people and be made whole again.
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Reconciliation

11/23/2020

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By Richard Korts

Richard Korts is  a software developer & IT manager who develops specialized internet apps. He resides in Escondido, California.
Reconciliation
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​Many years ago, President Abraham Lincoln, in a famous address, said “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” We are in that same situation now.

More than 75 million Americans voted for the Biden / Harris ticket in the 2020 election. But more than 71 million voted for Trump. So about 48.6 % of those who voted
were for Trump and about 51.4% were for Biden. We cannot just sweep that 48.6% under the rug.

The Republicans actually gained in the House and unless a miracle occurs in the two runoffs of the Georgia Senate races, the Republicans will still control the Senate. If both Dems in Georgia win and the two independents currently in the Senate side with them as expected, the Senate will have a 50-50 split.

I believe we as Americans must find a way to overcome the extreme polarization in this country and it needs to start NOW. Not just with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and other leading Democrats, but at the so-called grass roots level. But how do we do that?

I think it was in a broadcast of 60 Minutes in 2017 that Oprah Winfrey did a piece in which she led a discussion with 16 Michigan voters, eight of whom had voted for Trump and eight, for Hillary. Participants were able to avoid confrontation or anger by LISTENING to what the other side said, with no interruptions and no rebuttals, just listening. 
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We need to try doing something like that now. We need to reach across the partisan divide and listen to each other. I’d like to suggest we try it. Try assembling small groups of people on both sides of the divide and listen to each other. What have we got to lose? 
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To the Creators of the Lincoln Project

11/8/2020

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By Bruce Thompson

Bruce is an adjunct instructor of philosophy at Palomar College. His Ph.D. is from the University of Colorado. His major emphasis in philosophy is critical thinking, formal logic, and American pragmatism. He is also a poet, violinist, and raiser of back yard chickens.
To the Creators of the Lincoln Project
An open letter to Steve Schmidt, Nicole Wallace, and to the many other Republicans and former Republicans whose opinions have served to educate and inform me:
 
It has been a pleasure. When the Lincoln Project was formed I believe I was among the first liberals to email you to ask, “How can I support you? Where can I send money?” I have since given more money to the Lincoln Project than I gave even to Democratic candidates that I supported. It was a small amount (because I am only an adjunct college teacher), but every dollar of it was heartfelt and given without regret.
 
I believe our destinies must now part ways. You are called to do important work, and to go where I cannot follow. You must rebuild an honest, patriotic, and sincere conservative party. I am a liberal, and that is not my work. I will work to see a liberal agenda enacted: universal public health care, strict environmental regulations, and high taxes on the rich to fund programs that benefit the poor. I do not expect you to follow me in those efforts.
 
But I wish you well. The country needs an opposition party. Sometimes that opposition will be the conservative party; sometimes it will be we liberals. But we cannot thrive without each other. The party of Trump was so venal, so corrupt, so out of alignment with the values that all Americans share, that honest Republicans could no longer be a part of it. It had to end. But I have seen this before: given enough years in power, Democrats are capable of becoming just as corrupt and authoritarian as Republicans have shown themselves to be. When that time comes (and may it be many years away) we will need each other again.
 
I don’t believe the “Republican” party can be saved. It is now too much the “party of Trump,” devoted to tinfoil-hat conspiracies, racism, misogyny, as well as the denial of science, facts, reality, and basic logic. We need a new conservative party. Perhaps it could be called “The Party of Lincoln,” or, simply, “The Lincoln Party.” Made up of centrist Democrats and disaffected former Republicans, such a party could quickly become a formidable force in American politics.
 
But forming such a party is not my job. It is yours, and I sincerely wish you the best of luck with it. I will be your opposition, but I will never question your victories, nor celebrate your defeats.
 
Bruce Thompson

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Ethics, Integrity, Self-Interest, and Hypocrisy

10/5/2020

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By Jerry Franklin

Jerry is a retired high-school Government teacher residing in San Diego County, California. A major goal of his teaching was 
"to install in students a special inner ear capable of detecting either nonsense or unsubstantiated claims.

​Ethics, Integrity, Self-Interest, and Hypocrisy
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The chief support of American middle-class morality is, and always has been hypocrisy! To aver one thing and yet do the exact opposite is a proven characteristic within the social fabric of American life. It is as American as sour apple pie. We like to think of ourselves as good and decent folks and, as Winston Churchill pointed out, “In the long run the Americans will almost always do the right thing.” Still!
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In private circumstance hypocrisy is generally punishable in one way or another. As a defensive option it is most often and effectively employed in the world of commerce and politics. In those arenas the substantive issue at question is twisted and distorted by so many voices that in the long run questions of deceit and fault are submerged in a contradictory river of verbiage. Eventually the party or parties injured become not ethical victims but rather merely names within a topical issue in an ocean of many others: an issue du jour, quickly lost to the next day’s headlines. When it comes to the behavior of politicos it is so common as to be hardly worthy of mention.

Polite society dictates that we never sully or denigrate social order with salacious details of our “private” lives. To do so would be to contradict the rules of the American middle-class ethic. We merely cite this behavior as either discretion or a matter of privacy. It is good that this is so, for without such an ethic social order would be somewhere between difficult and impossible. The old radio program, “The Shadow,” used to begin with the portent laden words “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?”

Chico Marx having once been discovered flagrante delicto by his wife, turned to her and said “I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.” Most are not as quick witted as he; nevertheless, we all manage to closet our indiscretions both petty and large. One is capable of lying both by omission and commission. “That’s fine, just don’t mention it” is the largely unspoken mantra for a successful social life in America.

The Grand Old Party is currently busy explaining why they intend to rush through the replacement nominee for the Supreme Court despite the passionate argument issued by them to justify their denial of a fair hearing for Merrick Garland during the waning months of the Obama Administration. With nary a flicker of guile in their voices and facing the waning weeks of the current Trump Administration the current GOP leadership argues that “We should quickly name a replacement in order to guarantee a full court.” 
Like an old man slowly twisting his moustache while ogling a sweet young thing, they leer to the side and say, “Hypocrisy, us? . . . never!”

“We can, and so we shall” is the order of the day. Which is to say, we have the power and we will use it to serve our purpose. If EVER there was a better illustration of hypocrisy I cannot recall it!
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What the Dems Want

9/8/2020

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By Bob Delaney

Bob is an attorney and bridge player with the rank of Diamond Life master. He lives in Richmond, Indiana, where he is active in the Indivisible movement. The piece below is excerpted from a missive he sent to a group of long-time, but not always like-minded, friends and I thought it deserved a wider audience. Bob says it is a “rewrite, compilation and expansion” of an item posted by Greg Hilligoss, a retired Richmond teacher, who in turn had drawn from a text by a writer whose identity is unknown.

What the Dems Want

Trump and Pence say the Democrats … 

  • …hate the police and want to defund and disband them.. That's a lie. We want to root out racism, and police brutality and hold those who abuse power accountable.
  • …want to open the borders to criminals and others. That's a lie. We want to give asylum seekers a chance and help those coming from unimaginable terror and poverty. We want to ensure children aren't separated from parents and none are kept in cages.
  • …want to take away guns. That's a lie. We want sensible gun control to help prevent mass shootings. 
  • …want to get everything for free. That's a lie. We want to work hard to ensure that healthcare and education are affordable for all. 
  • …want to make war against traditional marriage. That's a lie. We want people of all sexual orientations to be able to love freely,  no matter whom they love.
  • …want to destroy history. That's a lie. We want to recognize ugly parts of our past and say unequivocally that what happened is not okay; we want to prevent ugly episodes from happening again.
  • …want to take away constitutional rights. That's a lie. We choose to believe science, wear masks and try to prevent the spread of disease.
  • …want to hate America. That's a lie.We recognize our faults (racial injustice, economic inequality, and abuse of police power) and want us to do and be better using truthful civil discourse.
  • …want to regulate everyone and everything. That's lie. We want to protect our air, water,  soil and people, especially children, and our health. If we go overboard in that regard, that's better than polluting our planet, killing our workers, and battering our children with an unhealthy environment.
  • …want to let the protestors destroy our cities. That's a lie. The bulk of our protestors are peaceful and seek action on our societal wrongs. ​

​We know that Trump is a pathological liar and educationally stupid. We know that Putin isn't stupid; he understands propaganda and how to use it and his assets, of which Trump is one.

Are we headed for a dictatorship run by Putin? Or will we recover our democracy and start repairing the enormous damage done by the Trump cult? That is the question.


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The Bathtub: The State of the State

3/19/2020

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By Jerry Franklin

Jerry is a retired high-school Government teacher residing in San Diego County, California.
The Bathtub: State of the State
It was the GOP’s Robespierre*, Grover Norquist, who said in May of 2001 on NPR’s Morning Edition, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”  After three years plus of the current administration’s efforts to weaken the institutional structure of our government—largely through our chief executive’s whimsical indifference—we must begin to appreciate the possibilities inherent in Grover’s cockamamie wish.
 
Our current struggle with the burgeoning covid19 pandemic serves to illustrate the vital significance of our “deep state” infrastructure. Notwithstanding Trump’s gutting of Obama’s team of pandemic planning experts, our national health organizations have responded with vigor. It has been our state and local leaders who have stepped up and accepted the responsibility of making tough political decisions designed to contain, mitigate and thwart this deadly new virus.
     
Trump’s failure to fill hundreds of vacant positions within our governmental agencies has served not to destroy them, but instead to simply enervate their capacities. It is not exactly up to Norquistian standards, but sure enough to give clear indication of what might be the consequence of the retrenchment of our government. The ultimate consequence of such an effort—whether by design or inattention—will not be a slim, trim and efficient government, but rather a feckless one. 

We still have the most skilled and dedicated institutional assembly of Federal civil servants readily to be seen in the world. Large size brings with it both inevitable losses as well as gains. The private sector has long been cognizant of this fact. But there are also great “economies of size” that are gained.
 
It is not the lack of ability or awareness that has hindered our national response; rather, it has been the lack of will.  If it is still not clear, let it be argued that whoever eats his, or her, breakfast at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue needs not only a rumpus bag full of new legislative ideas, but that person needs a readily discernible, and rechargeable, capacity for sound judgment and decision making. That person needs to bring a working blend of ideas and experience to what is likely the most challenging executive job in the world!

 As for Grover, let us hope that he is healthy and safe.  For that, he may thank his government.

*A French lawyer and statesman who played an active role in the French Revolution

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Stern Alarums ...

1/13/2020

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By Jerry Franklin

Jerry is a retired high-school Government teacher residing in San Diego County, California.

Stern Alarums ...
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“Your policies of terror, murder and mayhem will not be tolerized,” said ‘our dear leader’ on January 9, 2020. He would go on to say that “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon while I am President of the United States.” 

​Considering the fact that he withdrew the U.S. from the Nuclear Arms Treaty created by Obama, the Iranians likely now have less concern about starting a cottage nuclear industry.

Trump has recently said that his policies and actions have, unlike those of Obama, caused the Iranians to “fear him.” If the word fear is used in its nominative sense this is probably true. However if it is used as a verb it is more likely applicable to the American public, as well as the democracies of the world. Their concern is a conditioned response to the news confirmed by FACT CHECK on December 10, 2019, that Trump is credited with 15,413 false or misleading claims since taking office. You have much better odds putting your money down on number 34 on a roulette wheel.

I’m not too sure that the Iranians exactly “fear” him. On the other hand, I am damned sure that legions of American people do, including a considerable number of elected GOPers; but their anxieties have more to do with a paycheck than with the well being of the nation.
 
Meanwhile Trump, wearied by his efforts, has spent one out of every three of his days in office (242 times), playing golf. On the links, he is known to caddies far and wide by the moniker Pele!  Of course the American public foots the bill (including the cost of Secret Service, Air Force One and limos--$588 million to date) for his travels and payments to mostly his own properties, including $3.4 million to Mar A Lago alone. One should keep in mind that one of the many trumped up attacks on Obama was the rebuke of his golf outings. 

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Cyberspace Potpourri

1/13/2020

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Marj's Note: Sometimes wisdom comes in small packages. I've decided to start saving tidbits I see on the web that strike me as food for thought and posting them here from time to time. If any of them trigger your own thoughts, strike you as particularly apt or erroneous or headline worthy, I hope you'll submit an opinion piece of your own by starting here.
Cyberspace Potpourri
Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.
                                                                                                                               --Werner Herzog, German film maker

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
                                                                                  --Pericles, statesman, orator, and general in ancient Greece 


To the new GOP: For the rest of my life, i don’t ever want to hear another Republican lecture anyone about law and order, family values or morality. The party of Trump has lost all credibility on those matters.
                                                                                                                                                                          --Author unknown


A reporter once asked A.J. Must, a Dutch-vorn American clergyman and pacifist who protested against the Vietnam Wr, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?"

Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me."


Food for thought.
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The Thot Plickens

10/17/2019

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By Jerry Franklin

Jerry is a retired high-school Government teacher residing in San Diego County, California.


​The Thot Plickens
So, California billionaire Tom Steyer has decided to join the billboard of candidates running for President on the Democratic Party ticket. “I am not an insider. Look at the top four Democratic candidates. They have between them 70 years in Congress. That is the definition of an insider. If we are going to change, it will be a different way. It must be from the grass roots.”  Cliches aside, his experience, his achievements, have come exclusively from the world of entrepreneurial finance. The CEO (and owner) of a Fortune 500 is the very definition of an autocrat. 

One of the most egregious myths provided by historical example is the notion that dictatorships are, at least, efficient!  “Mussolini made the trains run on time.” That may be true . . . but at what cost? In a large, stratified system of government overseen by an autocrat it is virtually impossible to find innovation or risk at any level. Managers, section chiefs and worker bees are all keenly protective of their station. Few will risk contradicting the status quo when making the wrong move could cost them their job (or in pre-war Italy, their life). 

Like a complex spider web, our government is massive and filled with a thousand institutional structures each with a culture and personality of its own. Naively pluck a strand at one end and you have no idea what the reverberations may invite at the other. Only knowledge and experience can have a good chance of avoiding undesirable consequences.
 
There is very little wrong with our governmental system save for the folks that are in charge of it. No one can deny that the glaring stasis confronting the U.S. Congress is not the way it is supposed to be. Nor can anyone argue that this is the way it has always been.

“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.” “Every nation has the government that it deserves.” Varieties of this little bit of wisdom have been credited to everyone from Adams & Jefferson to Lincoln, Mark Twain and FDR. Actually, it was said by a French revolutionary figure named Joseph DeMastre. It is in any case quite true. One cannot blame Donald Trump for being Donald Trump. That is who he said he was while running for office. That we cringe from day to day at his inept and shallow performance on the world stage may rightfully be laid at the feet of those who not only voted for him but continue to support him.
 
Arguably, our government could, with a decent tune-up, again run efficiently if not according to every political disposition. We should respect, and want, 70 years of government experience. Who better to fix, to adjust, to realign the gears and levers of power than someone who understands them? We’ve now seen almost three years of an amateur at the helm (his personal quirks notwithstanding), and he has proved not only lacking but an active negative agent. 

Would it not be better to have someone who knows where all the bodies are buried—and how they got there—than one who has to start from scratch? That may sound like “end of the bar wisdom" but my vote will go to someone who does not have to ask which door to go through or where the rest rooms are.
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Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see.

                                             --Elijah Cummings

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The Essence of Free Government                                                                  _______________________________________________________________

7/6/2019

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By Jerry Franklin

Jerry is a retired high-school Government teacher residing in San Diego County, California.

The Essence of Free Government
Our granddaughter Amelia just received her Masters in Education in Portland and we were proudly there to watch. I chose to give her historian Jon Meacham’s latest publication Songs of America, a splendid little tome reflecting the role of music and songs of either praise or protest in our history. He wrote the book in concert with country music’s Tim McGraw. In the contextual introductory chapter I discovered the following quote from our second—and notably prickly—President, John Adams.
 
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. The executive and the legislative powers are natural rivals; and if each has not an effectual control over the other, the weaker will ever be the lamb in the paws of the wolf. The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative. Rivalries must be controlled, or they will throw all things into confusion; and there is nothing but despotism or a balance of power which can control them.
 
For those familiar with Meacham there can be little doubt that he chose to include this prescient insight of Adams with anything save dyspeptic regard for its application to our current political circumstance.
 
1) Am I the only one who finds the dominant Five Supremes teetering on the edge of fantasy—more likely hypocrisy--when they suggest that they won’t involve the court in the gerrymandering of North Carolina because it is a “political issue” and the court cannot involve itself in “political issues”? 

“Double, Double, Toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble;
 Filet of Alito snake; stroke of Thomas,
 Hand of Gorsuch; gall of Kavenaugh
Cool it all with Robert’s blood;
Then the ruling is firm and good.”
 
2) Further, I think it absurd that we are supposed to pick and choose a President from a “debate” that involves 20 people! The DNC wants to be fair to everybody, but it is either a bad idea or simply foolish to ask unwashed masses to winnow through that many aspirants by making choices between “sound bites” and “bumper stickers.”  
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