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Barbelo of the Pleroma's avatar

On the one hand, generations of kids trained to hate America and the American way of life, and actually bought into it, are now attaining positions of great power and influence. (As I saw it said, Rittenhouse is lucky his judge is a boomer because when millenials take the bench we will be living in a very different county.

On the other hand these people are in DC because they are grifters who can't make an honest living and neither know nor care what impact their policies have on anyone outside their privileged circle.

And then there is narcissism. I always go back to Peter Thiel's observation that narcissists are inherently reactive, short term thinkers. So despite their best intentions to wreck the USA they are too self-absorbed to actually do it methodically and it may mostly backfire. That's a sort of "third option" but might be the best of the lot.

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Bert Powers's avatar

I think it is both. In the early Obama days I suspected him to be a planted sabateur. When he lost the house in the midterms, it slowed him down somewhat. Same thing happened with the Clinton administration. Obama is on tape in an interview about having a third term via proxy, and mentioned an ear piece. The video is out there. All of this has been planned for years. The Trump thing was only a mere speed bump for this horrible and destructive agenda. Great reporting Jordan.

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