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Some information is too painful to know. I had always subscribed to the Schweitzer comment that we should “think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.” Such as you have posted is an indication that the suffering in our future is likely to be more than we can process and keep an iota of sanity. Just knowing how stupidly brutal and deliberately ignorant some are is a brain warp that will make the sane among us either lose hope, or have to deal with red-hot rage. I am one of the latter…

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And getting rid of the Department of Education will give the GOP or whatever surviving dictator we get the legions of serfs and peons that he--definitely a he--can control because they won't know how to subvert, a totally necessary skill one doesn't develop by always "going high."

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Dems deficient in the ability to be ruthless, at least to my knowledge

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Hear! Hear!!

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Ruthless it will take, none of that kumbaya that we saw with Ted Kennedy and W, or the “normal transition of power” as they steal election after election.

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Not even ruthless, just skilled, like a good boxer who knows when it's time to finish off an opponent after getting him on the ropes after answering every landed blow. Well refereed and tidy.

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Too late for Dems to be well-rehearsed and tidy. Would have to be able to herd cats..

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