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ancianita

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15. You're exactly right. This real world is very different from what they're discussing.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:52 PM
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They'd do better to more accurately describe this as HEALING from a disease.
The body politic can rid itself of the pathogens or autoimmune disease that sicken it.
Though it takes time to heal, the orderly systems of a healthy body politic return to systems that work together and grow stronger.


Nah.They can miss us with this criticism of "going back" or "returning" or "restoring" normal.
Theirs isn't even a fair analysis. Theirs is some abstract way of adapting to real world objective harm.
We KNOW there are real people doing real harm to millions of real Americans -- We KNOW we are not reacting. These are not some "inevitable forces" -- and that's the bottom line.

They don't get it. They're missing the real drives of human history. What they're doing is playing into adaptation mode -- that lives with UNjust peace, rewritten history, arts, censored language, disordered, violent rule-of-men societies, etc. -- none of which should be adapted to at all.

We humans evolved by fighting against entropic forces -- the kinds that try to kill off human creativity, innovation, the arts and sciences, real laws of morality, and LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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We aren't ever going "back to normal" [View all] struggle4progress Saturday OP
That was an excellent analysis Uncle Joe Saturday #1
Evolution has no direction. Ping Tung Saturday #2
Great Post! I would like to add this Pete Buttegieg post from a few weeks back, Ars Longa Saturday #3
+ struggle4progress Saturday #5
... littlemissmartypants Saturday #12
This message was self-deleted by its author ancianita Saturday #17
Being 70, I've seen things go back and forth. kerry-is-my-prez Saturday #4
No one has come close to 45. None tried to destroy democracy like this bastard. rickyhall Saturday #6
You've forgotten Adolf Hitler? synni Saturday #8
I think you're right. BannonsLiver Saturday #9
I want to believe that angrychair Saturday #10
You're exactly right. This real world is very different from what they're discussing. ancianita Saturday #15
Hitler was stopped by foreign armies. Feel Good Inc Saturday #11
There is no America Cosmocat Sunday #20
It took a World War to stop Hitler and Japan. Including 2 nukes dropped at the end. Celerity Sunday #26
They've just... littlemissmartypants Saturday #13
Donald Trump is doing to America what Osama Bin Laden only said he would do. Initech Saturday #18
Eisenhower was highly popular Polybius Sunday #21
No we will never go back to "normal." We will never again trust conservatives to abide by accepted norms, ethical Martin68 Saturday #7
❤️ littlemissmartypants Saturday #14
Smart lady. No, we're not going back Warpy Saturday #16
How about going back to "normal democracy" and normal rule of law? Would that be okay? ancianita Saturday #19
That's likely to look a bit different, too Warpy Sunday #24
Yes. Absolutely different. A normal democracy enables that to happen, and it's fervently to be wished. ancianita Sunday #25
K&R ReRe Sunday #22
Only climate change deniers would think that's possible Kaleva Sunday #23
And, if I may now add, AI systemic threat deniers. Celerity Sunday #27
The real problem qazplm135 Sunday #28
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