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Sylvia Chard's avatar

Very insightful writing, Laurence. I am finding it is all somehow so much clearer what went wrong than it was before the election and the Democrats pour performance with the voters.

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Daria's avatar

A nice story about your meeting with a woman from Texas in a Calgary bar. And maybe you're right about the 'thought police' and the denouncements of things people have said or done' and your yearning for 'old-timey' politics. Maybe LBJ should never have pushed Kennedy's Civil Rights Act to Congress and then pressed the House to pass it in 1964. Maybe the US Supreme Court should have gone the other way on Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka ten years earlier. Hell, maybe Lincoln should have found a 'common ground' on slavery in 1861. You've got a pretty naive take here my dude.

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