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Much great food for thought, Peter! You consistently examine topics with knowledge, insight and actual optimism (to a degree) that many stack authors lack. I learn from every read.

I feel there are no apparent conservative blocking mechanisms currently in place - most gutted through crooked left wing maneuvering and GOP malfeasance - to prevent a violent, segregating response from half of this country feeling beatdown, humiliated and extremely angry. Many of these states have blue governments because of majority democratic voting blocks in large cities, whereas in reality the majority of rural residents in huge swaths of land want no part of the authoritarian woke wankery, and conservative anger is on a slow boil.

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Thanks!

As we have seen with protest movements the world over, people suffer evil only while evils are sufferable--and then they don't.

There is no authoritarian regime that can stand once the people have had their fill of its evil.

The only questions are how long until a population decides they've had enough and what will they do after they toss off authortarianism's yoke.

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Yes, and the longer the people allow it, the tighter the noose becomes making it more difficult to remove. Not a question of it, but when?

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