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12. Yes!

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 09:54 AM

Oct 2021

And the same arguments and accusations get made.

My worry is that we are falling for the same things they fall for.

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How will we go on? [View all] CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 OP

Great piece. Thank you for that. CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #2

Everyone has to have some worst case scenario vercetti2021 Oct 2021 #3

Thank for this post. ShazzieB Oct 2021 #4

It's pretty much the same people. Kaleva Oct 2021 #6

Interestingly, Freepers do the same thing. The hyper-doom. Kaleva Oct 2021 #5

Yes! CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #12

Extremists tend to view everything in the extreme Kaleva Oct 2021 #19

Isn't that interesting... IrishAfricanAmerican Oct 2021 #14

Sadly, drama is the only reason some people get involved. Grokenstein Oct 2021 #7

We misgauged tRump in 2016. Worrying about winning 2022 & 24 is legitimate Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #8

+1000 smirkymonkey Oct 2021 #9

I live in Texas. hamsterjill Oct 2021 #10

I wonder if the Germans and the non-Vichy French felt the same way maxrandb Oct 2021 #11

It won't CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #13

Actually, I think today's Retrumplican Party is more like Vichy France maxrandb Oct 2021 #18

I visited my wife's family in Seattle last week. brooklynite Oct 2021 #15

Defeatism is not static, it's actively harmful. DeeNice Oct 2021 #16

Precisely! CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #17