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• An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.

SIGNOFF QUOTE: “War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.” ~ Carl von Clausewitz Quotes – BrainyQuote (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/carl_von_clausewitz.html)

POSSIBLE TOPICS: US urges halt to Turkish, Kurdish clashes in northern Syria, Hack Brief: As FBI Warns Election Sites Got Hacked, All Eyes Are on Russia, Drug companies spend millions to keep charging high prices, Health-care exchange sign-ups fall far short of forecasts, Aetna told DOJ it would drop Obamacare if Humana merger is blocked, “Lavoy” Finicum’s widow to sue FBI, Oregon police over standoff death,  USA Gymnastics prepares to argue in that sexual misconduct complaint on 54 coaches should remain secret, Understanding Air conditioning in Houston: What to look for, Student Loans Surviving Death, Co-signing Loans

• Health-care exchange sign-ups fall far short of forecasts, By Carolyn Y. Johnson (Washington Post) August 27 at 8:10 PM
  • Enrollment in the insurance exchanges for President Obama’s signature health-care law is at less than half the initial forecast, pushing several major insurance companies to stop offering health plans in certain markets because of significant financial losses.
  • As a result, the administration’s promise of a menu of health-plan choices has been replaced by a grim, though preliminary, forecast: Next year, more than 1 in 4 counties are at risk of having a single insurer on its exchange, said Cynthia Cox, who studies health reform for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
  • In February 2013, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that 24 million people would buy health coverage through the federally and state-operated online exchanges by this year. Just 11.1 million people were signed up as of late March.
  • Aetna, the nation’s third largest health insurer, announced that it will pull back from Obamacare exchanges citing losses of more than $430 million since January 2014. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post)
  • Obama has used the health-care law’s challenges to issue a new call for a public insurance option.
  • “Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited,” he wrote in an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “Adding a public plan in such areas would strengthen the Marketplace approach, giving consumers more affordable options while also creating savings for the federal government.”
• Drug companies spend millions to keep charging high prices, By David Lazarus, (LA Times) Aug 26, 2016.
  • Pharmaceutical heavyweight Mylan, the latest poster child for drug-industry greed, finally stuck up for itself Thursday. It argued that “the system,” not avarice, was to blame for the company jacking up the price of EpiPens, a common (and life-saving) allergy remedy, by over 400%.
  • Despite Mylan’s offer Thursday of discount coupons for some EpiPen users, the only system at work here is a cash-fat industry routinely preying on sick people. It’s a system that the drug industry will do whatever’s necessary to protect.
  • Of roughly $250 million raised for and against 17 ballot measures coming before California voters in November, … about $70 million has been contributed by deep-pocketed drug companies to defeat the state’s Drug Price Relief Act.
  • The Drug Price Relief Act would make prescription drugs more affordable for people in Medi-Cal and other state programs by requiring that California pay no more than what’s paid for the same drugs by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It would, in other words, protect state taxpayers from being ripped off.
  • Industry donations to crush the Drug Price Relief Act “will top $100 million by the election, I’m quite certain of it,” said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and a leading backer of the state measure, also known as Proposition 61. “They see this as the apocalypse for their business model.”
  • The drug industry already has succeeded in eviscerating Senate Bill 1010, legislation in Sacramento that would have required pharmaceutical companies to detail the costs of producing medicine and explain any price increases. The bill’s author, state Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), pulled it from consideration last week after industry lobbyists succeeded in watering it down with business-friendly provisions.
  • Mylan’s money-grubbing approach to EpiPens is only the latest example of a drug company mercilessly putting the squeeze on patients.
  • EpiPens are a decades-old way of delivering epinephrine, a hormone that counters the potentially fatal effects of severe allergic reactions to things such as bee stings and peanuts. There’s about a dollar’s worth of epinephrine in each EpiPen, to which Mylan acquired the rights in 2007 and proceeded to steadily impose double-digit price hikes.
  • But don’t forget Gilead Sciences charging $1,000 a pill for its hepatitis C drug Sovaldi. Or Turing Pharmaceuticals, which purchased rights to a well-established parasite drug used by AIDS and cancer patients and promptly raised the price by 5,000%.
  • A recent Reuters investigation found that prices for four of the nation’s top 10 drugs have more than doubled since 2011, with the remaining six jumping in price by at least 50%.
• Open the files, abused ex-gymnast tells USA Gymnastics, by Marisa Kwiatkowski and Tim Evans, (USA Today Network, The Indianapolis Star) 10:20 a.m. EDT August 27, 2016
  • Former USA Gymnastics officials testified under oath that they seldom, if ever, forwarded allegations of child abuse to police or child protective services without being asked. The investigation also revealed that USA Gymnastics maintains sexual-abuse complaint files on more than 50 coaches.
  • On Monday, Judge Ronald Thompson will hold a hearing on making those files public. The Indianapolis Star filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit in the State Court of Effingham County in Springfield, Ga.
  • USA Gymnastics prepares to argue in court (JANE DOE vs. USA GYMNASTICS, INC d/b/a USA GYMNASTICS, SAVANNAH METRO, INC, and WILLIAM A. MCCABE in the State of Georgia) that sexual misconduct complaint files it compiled on 54 coaches should remain secret,
  • The plaintiff argues that the organization [USAG] was negligent because it failed to report the allegations it received. Those complaint files on 54 coaches also were entered into evidence as part of the lawsuit.
  • The widow of Robert “Lavoy” Finicum, the Arizona rancher killed last January during a standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge, plans to sue the Oregon State Police and FBI agents involved in the shooting, her attorney said this weekend.
  • Finicum, 54, was the de facto spokesman for a group of anti-government protesters who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for several weeks last winter in support of local ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond, who were convicted of setting fire to federal land.
  • Brian Claypool, an attorney for Jeanette Finicum, said he plans to sue both the state police and two individual FBI agents over the shooting on a remote stretch of Highway 395 north of Burns, Ore., The Oregonian reported Friday.
• Rancher’s widow to sue FBI, Oregon police over standoff death, by Greg Toppo, (USATODAY) August 28, 2016
• Donald Trump Losing by a Landslide Would Heal the Nation: It would signal that the GOP’s scorched-earth political tactics don’t work, By Cody Cain [TIME.com] Aug. 29, 2016 10:33 AM ET (est.) Cain is a writer
  • When our two-party system of Democrats vs. Republicans is functioning properly, there is much to recommend it. …
  • In recent years, however, something has gone terribly awry. The Republican Party made the deliberate calculation that its best prospects for success lied not in abiding by the system and offering its superior ideas for governing, but instead in undermining the system by seeking to destroy its opponent.
  • This deplorable strategy from our political leaders is hardly the sort of conduct that our great democracy was designed to foster.
  • If Trump were to win the election in November, this would send a horrible message. A Trump victory would loudly proclaim that all of these underhanded political strategies of creating gridlock and sowing the seeds of frustration and division are indeed successful strategies…
  • If the election turns out to be close—even if Trump were defeated—these vile political strategies would still flourish. The Republican Party would likely conclude that their tactics brought them near to victory, so these tactics are effective and should be pursued more vigorously.
  • If, on the other hand, Trump suffered an enormous defeat in an overwhelming landslide, well, then, this would send a very different message. And imagine if this landslide also led to the Democratic Party gaining control of the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, and various state and local governments as well.
  • Republicans would be forced to face the reality that… their vile strategies of division and destruction incited the worst instincts in their party, led to the rise of the disastrous Trump candidacy and resulted in utter failure. They would be forced to abandon their scorched-earth tactics, and instead return to the good old-fashioned concept of what our system is all about in the first place. Namely, the Republicans would be forced into focusing less on destroying their opponents, and more on offering positive and constructive ideas of their own. They would also be forced to abandon their “my way or the highway” approach, and instead compromise with the Democrats to forge bipartisan solutions to governing.
  • Our system would then be returned to balance, and the public trust in our government would be restored. A landslide defeat of Trump would not only dispatch with a dangerous demagogue, but it would also go a long way toward restoring the proper functioning of our democracy.
• Syria rebels battle rival force as Turkey presses operation, By REUTERS\(Jerusalem Post) 08/27/2016
  • Syrian rebels backed by Turkey fought fighters opposed by Ankara in northern Syria on Saturday, sources on both sides said, as a Turkish-backed operation targeting Islamic State and Kurdish influence at the border appeared to gather pace.The fighting erupted at the village of al-Amarna, some 10 km (6 miles) south of the border town of Jarablus that was seized by the Turkey-backed rebels from Islamic State this week.
• US urges halt to Turkish, Kurdish clashes in northern Syria, By Suzan Fraser and Zeina Karam | AP August 29, 2016 at 5:13 PM
  • ANKARA, Turkey — The U.S. on Monday urged Turkish troops and Kurdish forces in northern Syria to halt their fighting, saying it hinders efforts to defeat the Islamic State group. But Turkey’s president vowed to press ahead with the military operation until the IS and Kurdish Syrian fighters no longer pose a security threat to Ankara.
  • It was the first U.S. criticism of its NATO ally since it launched a U.S.-backed incursion into northern Syria to help Syrian rebels seize the town of Jarablus from the Islamic State group. They have been clashing with Kurdish Syrian forces around the town to try to halt their advance.
  • The battle now pits Turkey against the Kurdish-led force known as the Syria Democratic Forces— a U.S.-backed proxy that is the most effective ground force battling IS militants in Syria’s 5-year-old civil war. It puts Washington in the difficult spot of having to choose between two allies, and it is likely to divert resources from the fight against IS.
  • S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Washington has asked Turkey to “stay focused” on the fight against the Islamic State and not to engage with the SDF.
• Aetna told DOJ it would drop Obamacare if Humana merger is blocked, by Tami Luhby   @Luhby (CNNMoney (New York)) First published August 17, 2016:
  • Last month, the company told the Department of Justice that it would probably be forced to withdraw from Obamacare altogether if the agency blocks its pending merger with Humana (HUM) over antitrust concerns.
  • “[W]e believe it is very likely that we would need to leave the public exchange business entirely and plan for additional business efficiencies should our deal ultimately be blocked,” Aetna (AET) CEO Mark Bertolini wrote in a July 5 letter.
  • Soon after the Justice Department filed its suit, Anthem also tied its continued participation on the exchanges to its merger.
  • “As shared with the DOJ, our acquisition of Cigna will help stabilize pricing in this volatile market, enabling Anthem to continue its commitment to the public exchanges, and provide the opportunity to expand our participation to nine additional states, where neither Anthem nor Cigna currently participate,” Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish said last month.
• Looks like Rio police were the biggest liars in the Lochte drama… if anyone still cares about the truth” – by Larry O’Connor posted at 1:31 pm on August 22, 2016 [Hot Air] http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/22/looks-like-rio-police-were-the-biggest-liars-in-the-lochte-drama-if-anyone-still-cares-about-the-truth/
  • In a statement released Friday, [one of the swimmers, Gunnar] Bentz confirmed police accounts that indicated Lochte damaged a sign during the incident and got into a “heated exchange” with the guards. But Bentz, who said authorities viewed him as a witness and never a suspect in the case, offered a narrative that closely matches Lochte’s revised account that he gave to Lauer three days after the incident. Bentz said his recollection was that money was demanded from the Americans by armed men in order for the swimmers to be allowed to leave.
  • While bystander Deluz and the police said the amount paid was for property vandalized, it is unclear whether the swimmers understood the situation.
  • Bentz, 20, is emphatic that his account is accurate: “I never made a false statement to anyone at any time,” he said.
  • At a news conference Thursday, Rio police chief Fernando Veloso characterized the athletes’ actions at the gas station as vandalism. He said they also had broken a soap dispenser and mirror inside the restroom. Reports quickly grew that the Americans had trashed the restroom.
  • A USA TODAY Sports videographer who visited the bathroom Thursday found no damage to soap dispensers and mirrors and said none of those items appeared to be new. Some media accounts suggested the men had broken down a door, which USA TODAY Sports also did not observe.
  • Bentz said in his statement that he believes there are surveillance videos shot from different angles that have not been released. He also said he did not see anyone damage the bathroom or even enter it.
• One in Three in US Think Voter Fraud a ‘Major’ Problem, Kate Samuelson @katesamuelson, Aug 22, 2016 (TIME): Around one in three U.S. citizens view voter fraud as a “major problem”, according to a survey carried out by research company Gallup
  • Republicans were more likely than Democrats to view voter fraud as a major problem, at 52% compared to just 26%. This has been reflected in the policy stances of many Republican governors, who have called for more rigid identification requirements.
• Are our electronic ballots safe?
  • So, NOW You’re Worried About a Hacked Election?!: MSM, Repubs and Dems finally decide e-voting and tabulation a concern…, ‘BradCast’ 8/3/2016, By Brad Friedman on 8/3/2016, 6:13pm PTBy Brad Friedman on 8/3/2016, 6:13pm PT
  • On today’s BradCast, we examine charges made by Donald Trump of a rigged November election, the case made by Bernie Sanders supporters that Hillary Clinton may have won the primary due to election fraud, and the mainstream corporate media finally deciding that, yes, hacked voting and tabulation systems really are a threat to American elections.
  • It might all have been more fun had all of the above noticed these concerns years ago, rather than right after what some believe is a stolen election and right before one that some believe could be stolen. Ya know, back when there would have been time to move to transparent voting and counting systems instead.
    • Examine the various arguments, including some detailed thoughts — both critical and complimentary — on a new 100-page draft report [PDF] by Election Justice USA, titled “Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries”.
  • Why [Brad Friedman is] not particularly persuaded by studies of Exit Polls in regard to U.S. elections, and why, frankly, my response to their report would be similar whether they found proof of fraud or proof of zero fraud in the election. In both cases I would say what I have been saying for years: We need publicly hand-counted, hand-marked, paper-ballots in this country in order to have real confidence in results. (That is what I’ve long described as Democracy’s Gold Standard.) [Italics and emphasis from Mike]
  • Short of that, with computerized voting and counting systems that are difficult, if not impossible for the public to oversee, confidence in U.S. elections will continue to erode whether fraud or error actually exists in the results or not. That, in and of itself, as I [Brad] have shouted for years, continues to present a grave threat to America’s system of representative democracy.

• Ballot box uncertainties hang over US election, by David J Lynch in Washington, Financial Times [August 15, 2016 1:03 pm] – Fewer than 90 days before election day, the rules governing who can vote remain unsettled in at least 10 US states including pivotal battlegrounds that are home to millions of voters.
  • Academic research, including a 2007 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, have found few cases of the cheating such measures are intended to prevent. Yet among Republican voters the existence of significant fraud remains an article of faith.
• Smoking gun? Aetna threatened to quit Obamacare if the government blocked its Humana merger, BY Michael Hiltzik, (LA Times) AUG-17-2016
  • Aetna’s announcement this week that it was pulling out of most of the states where it was serving the Obamacare individual exchanges was a head-scratcher; after all, just three months earlier, Chief Executive Mark Bertolini was calling its participation in the market “a good investment,” despite near-term losses.
  • Bertolini also had tried to tamp down speculation that its withdrawal was anything like a payback for the government’s move to block its $37-billion merger with Humana.
  • Now evidence has emerged that Aetna was lying. The smoking gun is a July 5 letter from Bertolini to Ryan Kantor of the Justice Department, unearthed by Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young of the Huffington Post via a Freedom of Information Act request.
  • In the letter, sent before the DOJ formally announced it would sue to block the Humana deal, Bertolini explicitly ties the two issues together.
  • “Our analysis to date makes clear that if the deal were challenged and/or blocked we would need to take immediate actions to mitigate public exchange and ACA small group losses,” Bertolini wrote. “Specifically, if the DOJ sues to enjoin the transaction, we will immediately take action to reduce our 2017 exchange footprint. We currently plan, as part of our strategy following the acquisition, to expand from 15 states in 2016 to 20 states in 2017. However, if we are in the midst of litigation over the Humana transaction, given the risks described above, we will not be able to expand to the five additional states.”
• Tehran halts Russian raids on Syria from Iran, BY Monavar Khalaj in Tehran and Kathrin Hille in Moscow (Financial Times) August 22, 2016 7:16 pm
  • Iran said that Russian warplanes had stopped using an Iranian air base to bomb targets in Syria, a day after the Islamic regime accused Moscow of “showing off” by making public its use of the facility.
  • Tehran’s abrupt announcement came less than a week after Russia revealed that a group of long-range Tupolev Tu-22 M3 bombers and Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bombers had taken off from Hamadan, south-west of Tehran, to carry out strikes in Syria. It was the first time a foreign state had used Iranian territory to attack a third country since at least the second world war.
  • The news that Russian warplanes were flying from the Islamic republic shocked Iranians and sparked criticism from some parliamentarians.
  • Many Iranians share a long-term distrust of Russia. They believe that one of the most humiliating international agreements that their country has signed was the 1828 treaty of Turkmenchay between Iran and Russia, by which Tehran ceded control of much of the south Caucasus.
• Iraq stops would-be child bomber for ISIS, By Lauren Said-Moorhouse (CNN) Mon August 22, 2016: Would-be child bomber captured by Iraqi police. Guards apprehend boy, 15, headed toward Shia mosque in Kirkuk, official says
  • (CNN)Dramatic video has emerged of Iraqi police stripping an explosive belt from a child suspected in a suicide bombing attempt for ISIS.
  • The footage appears to show security personnel restrain a visibly upset boy while they carefully cut the belt from the youth’s torso in Kirkuk. Once the belt has been removed, the boy is scooped up and taken away.
  • The arrest in Kirkuk comes a day after a child bomber is believed to have targeted a Kurdish wedding in Turkey, killing at least 54 people. More than 20 of the victims were children under 14, a Turkish official said Monday.

• Whatever happened to cops asking, “Will you go peacefully?” before tackling and bums-rushing an otherwise peaceful protester?
• Think twice, maybe three times, before cosigning loans, and even then, you probably shouldn’t do it.
  • In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve, By ANNIE WALDMAN, (NY Times) JULY 3, 2016

 SOURCES WHICH MAY BE RELEVANT TO OTHER DISCUSSION:

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• Differences between Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians and neo-Conservatives
  • Left–right politics, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • History of the terms: The terms “left” and “right” appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president’s right and supporters of the revolution to his left. One deputy, the Baron de Gauville, explained, “We began to recognize each other: those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp.” However the Right opposed the seating arrangement because they believed that deputies should support private or general interests but should not form factions or political parties. The contemporary press occasionally used the terms “left” and “right” to refer to the opposing sides.^[9]
  • Greens and Libertarians: The yin and yang of our political future, by Dan Sullivan (originally appearing in Green Revolution, Volume 49, No. 2, summer, 1992)
    • … Libertarians tend to be logical and analytical. They are confident that their principles will create an ideal society, even though they have no consensus of what that society would be like. Greens, on the other hand, tend to be more intuitive and imaginative. They have clear images of what kind of society they want, but are fuzzy about the principles on which that society would be based.
    • Ironically, Libertarians tend to be more utopian and uncompromising about their political positions, and are often unable to focus on politically winnable proposals to make the system more consistent with their overall goals. Greens on the other hand, embrace immediate proposals with ease, but are often unable to show how those proposals fit in to their ultimate goals.
    • The most difficult differences to reconcile, however, stem from baggage that members of each party have brought with them from their former political affiliations. Most Libertarians are overly hostile to government and cling to the fiction that virtually all private fortunes are legitimately earned. Most Greens are overly hostile to free enterprise and cling to the fiction that harmony and balance can be achieved through increased government intervention.
    • Amongst published researchers, there is agreement that the Left includes anarchists, communists, socialists, progressives, anti-capitalists, anti-imperialists, anti-racists, democratic socialists, greens, left-libertarians, social democrats, and social liberals.^[5][6][7]
    • Researchers have also said that the Right includes capitalists, conservatives, monarchists, nationalists, neoconservatives, neoliberals, reactionaries, imperialists, right-libertarians, social authoritarians, religious fundamentalists, and traditionalists.^[8]

• Payday Lenders
  • Usury: noun the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest. Archaic interest at unreasonably high rates.
  • Interest Caps
  • ‘Choice’
  • Are the many high-interest payday lenders a direct result of bank deregulation and the attendant fees and penalties that came with them?
  • How this Missouri man wound up paying $50K in interest after taking $2,500 in payday loans: ws/20onFHy pic.twitter.com/8krVicitx1
• Time for a return of the 2 ½ contingency war strategy?
  •  Will we ever see a return of the “Peacetime Army”?
  • Threat from Russian and Chinese warplanes mounts – USA Today

o How much do the Saudis own in U.S. Treasuries? After four decades, it’s no longer a secret, by Michael Hiltzik (LA Times) 5-16-2016

• The Treasury Department on Monday opened the curtain on one of our longest-lasting, and strangest, state secrets: how much U.S. debt does Saudi Arabia own?
• The Treasury Department on Monday opened the curtain on one of our longest-lasting, and strangest, state secrets: how much U.S. debt does Saudi Arabia own?
• The answer, as of March, is $116.8 billion. That may sound like a lot, but it places the Saudis only at 13th on the list of major foreign holders of treasuries. Leading the roll among the foreign holders of $6.3 trillion in securities are mainland China ($1.245 trillion) and Japan ($1.137 trillion).

o Government Debt in the United States – Debt Clock:  (www.usgovernmentdebt.us/): Total Federal Government Debt in 2016. At the end of FY 2016 the gross US federal government debt is estimated to be $19.3 trillion, according to the FY17 Federal Budget.

o India to ‘divert rivers’ to tackle drought, By Navin Singh Khadka Environment reporter, (BBC World Service) 16 May 2016

• India is set to divert water from its rivers to deal with a severe drought… [affecting] At least 330 million people are … affected by drought in India.
• The drought is taking place as a heat wave extends across much of India, with temperatures in excess of 40C (~104^oF).
• The Inter Linking of Rivers (ILR) has 30 links planned for water-transfer, 14 of them fed by Himalayan glaciers in the north of the country and 16 in peninsular India.
• Environmentalists have opposed the project, arguing it will invite ecological disaster but the [Indian] Supreme Court has ordered its implementation.
• Of its 29 states, nearly half were reported to have suffered from severe water crisis this dry season.
• The federal government in Delhi has had to send trains carrying water to the worst affected places.

• What Are Cats Trying to Tell Us? Science Will Explain, By Carrie Arnold [National Geographic] PUBLISHED March 28, 2016
  • Nearly all New York State pet owners talk to their pets like they’re fellow humans, according to a recent poll.  Many believe their dogs and cats can respond with barks or meows that communicate hunger, fear, or simply the need to pee.  But do the animals tawk back in a Brooklyn accent? That’s the sort of thing Swedish cat lover and phonetics researcher Suzanne Schötz is working to find out. After executing this strategy on every government program except the military and corporate welfare, is it now the turn of the Supreme Court?
• The Science of Meow: Study to Look at How Cats Talk: A new project is underway to decode kitty communication—and figure out if cats really like all that baby talk.
  • What Are Cats Trying to Tell Us? Science Will Explain
    [National Geographic Society]:

• The dos and don’ts of open carry, By Robert Arnold – Investigative Reporter (click2houston.com) Posted: 9:37 AM, December 31, 2015 Updated: 10:04 AM, December 31, 2015
• TERMINOLOGIES: Words Matter
  • The term “Conservative” is so inaccurate as currently used by the Media, the Media and all of us really need to rethink their classifications and terminology.
  • There are Liberals/Progressives and there are Conservatives. Both of those are fine and serve a useful purpose in civil opposition to each other.
  • Today’s “Conservatives” are conservative in name only

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