How This Will End

[gratuitous]

1. If a leader enjoys popular support, he doesn't need to be a tyrant

In any event, we need to steel ourselves for what is to come, and what must necessarily be done down the line. We fucked up the last several times (for various reasons), and the pestilence keeps coming back more and more virulent. I don't know that the United States can survive another bout of this illness. It needs to be taken out root and branch, the soil sown with salt, and the authors, architects and supporters denied their perches of authority and influence.