CPAC Just Decided to Not Let Any US Journalists Inside

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37. Boy. We're surrounded by MAGA-extremists here in GA, but they're

strong churchgoers, believers in authority and order (their old culture, old laws they understand), so no shootings in the night.

These are really scary times everywhere. I'm certainly with you in knowing that those behind what's happening on the right have always intended to eliminate programs like Social Security and Medicare, now the ACA. If they can.

As for what they have planned -- and worse are capable of and may not be able to control -- we're seeing big, big clues that they have no limits on what they might do. The Republican pandemic was deliberately allowed and encouraged to spread for political purposes, and it seems likely now for economic. There is no doubt that they fostered it to further their purposes, though. Sowing chaos in a nation of 300 million to take power.

That said, change always creates more change, and reaction. Crazy as so many people are behaving, the vast majority want what they've always had and don't want where their craziness is taking them. Including turning living rooms and garages into living space for newly destitute relatives who'd have to be taken in.

The culture Americans inherited, our ways of life, and our expectations of what is due us are huge factors. We all still have the vote. And there are 330 million of us. It's realistic to be far from hopeless.