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                                             September 19, 2018       
                                                                      
                                                     GALEF
I get that Galef would rather be a Scout                              
than a Soldier, but wars really do                                    
happen, and we may very well be looking                                    
at an irreconcilable difference between    A "Cold Civil War" as Carl      
two camps.                                 Bernstein puts it in Michael    
                                           Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9".      
If you're a reasonable person, you like                                    
the idea of reaching out to the other                                      
camp with reasoned arguments and                                          
attempts at persuasion, but we're pretty                              
clearly far beyond that at present: a              Those eternally    
third of the US electorate now has to              neutral types are    
be regarded as a write-off.  The best              not exactly easy to  
you can hope for is that they'll be                understand.  "Gee,   
contained and neutralized by the newly             I'm just not sure    
motivated third that votes liberal/left,           what to think about  
with some contribution from the great              Donald Trump."       
undecideds who never seem to be sure                                         
about anything.                                        If only there were    
                                                       a few news stories    
                                                       about him.            
                                                                             
                                                                            
                                    Trying to be more (sort of)
                                    positive about it: it could
                                    be the great right-wing
                                    threat will find some way
  "Come on back to the war,         to flip without ever admitting
   that's right, get in it..."      they'd been wrong about anything.

    -- Leonard Cohen,                      FREE_TO_REGULATE
       "There is a War"


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