There Can Be No Peace

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11. I just love your work.

But it will be a VERY long time before my opinion of the republi-CON party improves. They have a gigantic load of reparations, sincere and humble contrition, and a wholesale change of heart, mind, philosophy, and world view, that I doubt they can climb a mountain that high.

It always has to start with sincere and humble acknowledgement. As they say in AA, first you have to admit you have a problem. And I don’t have much confidence that most of ‘em will go there.

How’d it go with all those “good Germans”? Didn’t it take busting through the guard gates at the concentration camps and confronting the hard truths of those millions of bodies... and the ovens... and all the unspeakable atrocities...? Didn’t it take forcing them to face the bare horrors they enabled? That’s what it took to finally shake them awake. That and utter financial and social ruin and shame and the shock and horror of the rest of the world.

I don’t know if the trumpers can ever get there, if they can ever fully admit what THEY enabled. Nobody wants to admit they were wrong, especially when they embraced it all so eagerly, ardently, proudly.

Nobody wants to be the ones that were wrong. Or even worse, that they were had. ROYALLY had. That’s an awfully big lift. Frankly, I doubt many of them are up to it by now, or ever.