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Powerful writing, powerful thoughts. Historical trauma coming through generations into being re-enacted in different expressions. For all the historians here - please inform us the number of times when criminal behavior by people in the top most positions of leadership in this country has ever been fully adjudicated and the criminals sent to prison? On another note: we will see Biden's stripes revealed in how he deals with such fundamental cancer. Will his hail-fellow-back-slapping- bent toward "bipartisanship" -when the Republicans since Reagan have a well documented trail of absolutist partisanship long epitomized in the figure of McConnell- soften all meaningful adjudication? Will we see again American leadership absolutely incapable of making ones of their own face the magnitude of their own criminality? Non-pardonable crimes with extended meditative times behind bars in real, not executive, prison? As if such rot - like the probability of the NY judge about to free the Sackler family from facing the piper for the evils they've done and continue to do - won't further decay the democracy.

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Good catch, Selina. Murder one and it's murder. Murder several and it's mass or serial killing. Murder a million and one is a statesman, even a founding father.

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