My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 2.26

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The greatest nation in the world leads in premature deaths.

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Guns here in the United States are protected by an amendment.
Healthcare in the United States protects everyone awfully darn well except for 89 million uninsured and underinsured Americans.
Lack of mental health being the only direct connection between the 2 statements above.

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Law and Order is a Republican trope.
Which translates as mass incarceration of Black Americans.

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Riots are terrible.
Until you factor in liberty, freedom, and exclusively, white people.

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Racism was eradicated.
When we whites decided we had heard enough about it.
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Conservative christians are persecuted more today in America than anywhere else.
There are fewer shopping days before Xmas, and “God damn you liberals” is considered uncouth and hostile.

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It is impossible to keep up with all the different genders liberals are creating.
Conservatives bemoaning the fact that they avoid attending universities where new ideas are taught.

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You cannot make these things up.
The working title for the Trump Accidental Presidential Library.

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Take me home country roads.
How Trump avoided the New York AG’s posse after leaving the White House.

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Seek and ye shall find.
Unlimited things Trump did wrong, maliciously, and illegally during his presidency.

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Immigration cannot be fixed by giving people amnesty.
But not prosecuting the Capitol Hill insurrectionists is a place to start.*
*A Trumplican legal theory non-sequitur.

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Inequality is not a big problem if almost everyone has a cell phone, according to most conservatives.
Just ask Adam Smith, who says… Oops. He wouldn’t agree.

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Showing a quote or excerpt, possibly out of context, is not really proof of anything.
That is untrue, quotes and excerpts are always out of context. They are best used to show the other side is not telling the whole story. Real life is complicated.

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Democracies are bad because it is mob rule.
Let a few people with wealth and power run the country instead.

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The problem with inequality is that we do not know what equality means say conservatives.
The problem with the idea of equality is those having the most generous portion of the inequality pie never want us to determine what constitutes equality.

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The best way to fix our problems is gradually, and pragmatically.
Exactly what someone with very few problems would recommend.

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Why reform is a bad word.
I may be asked to empathize with others.

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By Richard The Chwalek.

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