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malthaussen

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11. It's appalling what we have come to...

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #9)

Sat Jul 2, 2016, 04:36 PM

Jul 2016

... but it has been occurring to me recently that the rising generation really has nothing to compare it with, to truly assimilate how bad things are. Politics has been going steadily downhill this entire century, and it wasn't too far up the hill to begin with.

Some politicians stand out as complete aberrations in the new norm, though.

-- Mal

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