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19. Exactly the way I feel, too. For a number of years I've felt that this dangerous

Reply to Hekate (Reply #16)

Thu May 25, 2017, 11:23 AM

May 2017

fascist Republican Party was going to have to SELF-destruct -- Democratic rationality has NO power over the sort of howling, violent, mentally-ill stuff coming out of the Republican Party. No power. It has to play out. Unfortunately, because of the urgency of the climate change problem, we are unlikely to survive as a nation or maybe even as a species. It's simply too late for rational action to address that problem.

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