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I thought the same. Almost as if it was a good thing------it is lasting way too long. Another thought is I believed that by 2023 most of the trouble in the world would be solved. I think some have as example medical science is spot on. Although lot is still on the table such as climate, China, Russia, guns, pandemic and do not discount the UFO admission by the Pentagon.

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The one thing I have learned from my study of history is that "the world's problems" are *never* solved. The old ones get replaced by new ones.

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Great historical perspective. Always learningтАжthanks

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OR the "problems solved" get even more thoroughly screwed up - look at these nutjobs!

Watching a clip of Repubs walking out on Gaetz speech? Isnt that telling of exactly how much gumption these people have? Walking out - really? Disgusting.

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There are always vipers waiting , having been taught by the retiring vipers

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I think a lot of the folks here tended to be whiggish, assuming that ultimately, things were on the right path. and if someone lived through the '60s (at least until '68), what with all those Great Society programs, thinking that way was understandable.

aside from being shocking, disorienting, disgusting, enraging...(add any adjectives you like) all of this is just so fucking SAD.

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I had the тАЬhonorтАЭ of having a best friend whose whole family was addicted to Rupert from the mid-nineties. I saw first hand the insanity of тАЬMAGAtтАЭ devotion before chump. I thought the majority was smarter. Silly me

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Absolute waste of human intelligence, energy and earths resources.

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IтАЩve got to admit I wasnтАЩt тАЬpresentтАЭ politically during so much of what led up to where we are today. IтАЩm 80, so benefited from so much of the New Deal while growing up. My тАЬwaking upтАЭ came during Newt GingrichтАЩs term. ThatтАЩs when I switched from Republican to Democrat. I can remember having a discussion with a co-worker after the passing of the de-segregation bill about what it would mean in the south. (I attended segregated schools in Louisiana through the fifth grade when we moved to North Dakota. Cultural shock!!). Anyway, my point was that a law couldnтАЩt and wouldnтАЩt change the cultural mindset of the people that lived there. My co-worker was all about everything is fine now that we have a law. As the years have passed, I have often thought of that conversation and, unfortunately, have seen that I was so correct. It takes more than laws. The laws are so important, but then we need to educate тАЬthe massesтАЭ as to what happened to cause those laws to be made. My soapbox has been and will continue to be EDUCATION.

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