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ananda

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3. Steinbeck

Reply to ThreeNoSeep (Original post)

Mon Nov 4, 2024, 09:00 AM

Nov 2024

“The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.”

― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

I would definitely say this is true of today's Republicans.

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