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Thank you, Lisa. I have done other reading this morning to try to absorb the subject and see it more clearly. Dan described the initial sense of it with, 'I fear that we don't have an adequate framework to make complete sense of the depravity and disingenuousness of what is taking place.'

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Bully tactic 101. If you don't play the game my way, I'm going to take the ball and go home. Good God this country is being run by (no make that bamboozled) pre-adolescents.

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Yes. I refer to them as prepubescent bullies. There is nothing adult like or rational about their behavior. They’re hollow human beings filled with hate and they need everyone else to hate with them.

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They call it "Playing Politics"

But they're playing with our future.

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they punch us in the face, take our milk money, and then take their ball and go home.

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Hi Charlie! I think you are being generous to the devils and too unkind to pre-adolescents. Could Cruz or McDonnell been even worse at that age?

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As people age, they either become better...

...or, if they don't become better, they get worse.

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I suspect their evilness was evident quite early.

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As I've said at least several times before in these comments, Lincoln should have let the South go.

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'I fear that we don't have an adequate framework to make complete sense of the depravity and disingenuousness of what is taking place.'

Has the world never witness the growth of fascism before?

Just asking.

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I don't believe anyone expected "fascism" to take birth in the USA.

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Ahem. Sinclair Lewis: “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

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Makes me shiver knowing Sinclair Lewis said that many many years ago!

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Charlie, may I share your quote of Sinclair Lewis?

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Absolutely. I just Googled it.

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Then they haven’t been paying attention.

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