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> There has to be some way to address this, and at the moment there clearly isn't.

I don't see how it could ever happen.

It's arguable that democracy and government accountability in the US ended in the early 1800s. If it ever existed at all, really.

I mean, consider history. The New Deal was arguably appeasement to forestall revolution. We finally elected a black president, who had cultivated almost a "black power" reputation in Chicago, and he ended up barely more liberal than Nixon.




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