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I also voted for her, for much the same reason except that we are probably not entirely on the same page WRT the Gaza war.

Democrats are thinking they will clean up in the mid-terms but my entirely non-psychic prediction is that republicans will become even more entrenched. That is because facts don't move people; stories do. MAGA has a story and the Democratic party doesn't.

We lost the story-line somewhere around the time of the passage of the Endangered Spices Act. Yes I see that quizzical look. It's complicated. Someday I'll try to explain in detail but the elevator version is that the ESA told rural people that their lives and livelihoods were less important than those of animals, or to put it more succinctly, "You are less than animals." Then there was this hand waving about retraining, as if they were animals, which I suppose is a step up from being less than animals. This massive insult provided ample fodder for guys like Rush Limbaugh.

I'm all for preserving animal species, and supported the ESA back in the day. It's just that no one, least of all me, foresaw the long-term consequence we are living through right now.

FAFO, as Jeff Tiedrich is fond of saying.

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