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TomD's avatar

People who say Biden did not win in 2020, that the election was stolen, have no business voting; or, for that matter, serving on juries. They have lost the ability to reason. People who know Trump lost, but say the election was rigged anyway, aid and abet a crime.

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Call me cynical if you like, but having seen the GOP takeover coming so long ago, I'm less concerned about reading and writing postmortems on the party at this point and am more in the mode of formulating a Plan B, a personal exit plan, if things go badly in November. Fortunately I have viable options, unlike a lot of other people. I just wish that, like so many others, I weren't in the position of having to consider that extreme option in the first place. It all seems like a bad dream, and then so much more.

I really do not want to spend the rest of my life wondering how it all came to this and telling people why I left America for greener pastures, turning my back on my homeland and leaving it behind when I had been perfectly happy and productive there, only to watch the nation gradually embrace its worst characteristics and for the worst of reasons. It all feels so unreal and seems so unthinkable. And I certainly can't promote America as being the Greatest Nation on Earth if so many of its good people feel like they are unsafe there, and if all that they worked to build up might be taken away in the end. Our forefathers must be looking at us with substantial sadness from the Great Beyond.

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