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Introducing 'freedom gas' – a bit like the 2003 deep-fried potato variety, only even worse for you

JLV

One wonders if these rather childish antics, and the voting patterns they correlate to, are caused by emotional reactions to gradual decline. Or whether they cause/accelerate that decline:

The US is losing influence in the world, while China’s is rising. That’s not necessarily benign, China has yet to prove it will not be a noxious superpower when it gets there. Developing countries are doing just that and Western countries are becoming less uniquely prosperous.

What largely built the US, oil, is fast becoming toxic, even as fracking has made it domestically cheaper.

The kind of dimwit older white voters (with whom I share ethnicity and sadly aging) who support these morons are also seeing a world and country in which they matter even less (Brexit parallels? a-plenty).

So, instead of realistic assessments on how to adjust and which of their country’s, many, strengths to play to, you get a bunch of Archie Bunkers, led by a POTUS who makes Archie look like Einstein, engage in this pathetic parody of Idiocracy.

These are NOT the people who checkmated the USSR, just like Lord Byron was unimpressed with 19th century Greeks. Hopefully more dynamic US citizens can prevail and next election can turf this crew out, without going all AOC.

“America? Fuck, yeah,”

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