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Sadly, magats are dumber than rabbits. I didn't count the number of times the word "we" appeared in the article, but it's a lot. So what "we" are we talking about? The we that elected Trump? We gets defined more clearly in anticipation of conflict with them. They elected them, and in the US, they number 74 million. We need to include some/most/all of them in our coalition, or we and they are both screwed. Their voting sucks, and some truly are deplorable. But most of them are decent enough, and most contribute to society in significant ways.

So I probably shouldn't call them dumber than rabbits, even if they mostly are. Disdain is my first instinct, cause we are obviously better than they. That plays well in our blue bubble, but preaching to the choir converts no souls. Politics is based largely upon the suspension of contempt, hard to swallow, but has the virtue of being the only alternative to acquiescence or violence, i.e., slavery or war. However, it takes two to tango, if they are intractable, politics is futile. That leaves the other two options. Death comes to both predator and prey in the end. Sartre stated that our only truly inalienable right is the right to shout NO, and go down swinging. Another man wiser than I said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."

Somehow I knew this would end in shit.

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