Month: September 2025

We, and the entire universe of mainstream, traditional American citizens, have been relegated to an unprecedented state of shock and abject frustration, in waking up each morning to the dystopic state of our beloved Democratic Republic; the latter, nightmarishly appearing to dissolve before our eyes, by the toxicity of a presenting governmental autocracy. A pervasive feeling, bordering on paralytic helplessness, not unlike that experienced during a traumatic nightmare, is presented, invading our daily lives, and resulting in widespread feelings of anger, frustration, and, at times, profound despair.

Such feelings on the part of the mainstream American citizen are empirically credible, as being dynamically reactive to a Presidential pirate and a perverse crew, who have navigated, conceivably, the fair and pacific course of our venerable Ship of State to the dark and dangerous shoals of autocracy. This writing is dedicated to the freedom-loving, peaceful, and humanistic American citizen who, conceivably, may be cowering in a state of catatonic despair. The arrogant disregard for the fundamental restraints on Presidential authority and the dereliction of the freedoms of the American citizenry, as evidenced by the current monarchical style of governance, is credibly abhorrent, empirically warranting such despair.

A brief dip into modern history is merely required to conclude that any such comprehensive response to the evident destruction of the fundamental underpinnings of our venerable polity is self-destructive, as well as ultimately defeatist.

It is ubiquitously demonstrable that the policies and actions of the Trump-MAGA Administration are antagonistic to, and in express repudiation of, the personally directed Nation’s systemic democratic metabolism. Monarchial arrogance and cruelty practiced by the present Administration, with the irresponsible, silent, and self-interested support of the Republican-led Congress, have led to a virtual transmogrification of the Nation to the repressed context of a Hungary or Russia.

A mere dip into modern history will reveal that the disappointed acquiescence or resolution of helpless despair reactive to such perverse demolition of appropriate democratic governance and individual rights is more than unproductive; it is fully compliant with the planned intentions of a would-be autocrat and his errant supporters. Acquiescent despair and accommodation are the tactical goals of aspiring autocracy; inactive frustration and resignation, in such instances, amount to a metastasizing acquiescence and hopelessly abject surrender.

It is existentially imperative that the concerned American citizen not resign from his traditional love of our historically established Democratic Republic and resign himself, to any degree, to the extant fascistic, authoritarian drift toward political disaster. In addition to taking whatever peaceful actions available to him, such as speaking out, writing, contacting political officials and legislators, local and federal, and other available modes of appropriate expression, he must not, lazily or resignedly, accept the present, untenable state of nefarious, un-American tactics and fascistic intimidation. Frustrated acceptance and silent resignation are the dynamic goals of any aspirational autocracy. The American citizen has the natural right to demand democratic polity and its explicit assurances of liberty.

Some would protest (with sufficient rectitude) that this blogspace is dedicated to “Preaching to the Choir.” We certainly hope so; to confirm fundamental moral and equitable principles, is vitally important to their beneficial endurance. The reader is encouraged to do the same, as well as to affirmatively continue, when relevant, to adamantly stand up to the reductively ignorant dissidents, for the salubriously traditional American way of life.

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In the venerable Nation of “Tis-of-thee “, the patriotic citizens sing a National Anthem whose verses begin with the arguably confusing identification, “My country, Tis-of-thee” I sing. The democratically free Nation itself is not free from confusion and heated contention.

At a notable meeting of its legislature, the subject of universal vaccination was discussed, which evinced much heated contention. The continuation of the Nation’s vaccination program, inclusive of its existence as a prerequisite to entry into primary school. In empirical support of the practice, profuse National statistics were introduced, which inarguably demonstrated the historic record of effectiveness of the relevant program in its salutary prevention of vulnerability to diseases, such as Hepatitis B ,Polio, Diphtheria, Mumps, Whooping Cough, Flu, and recently, COVID-19.

Notwithstanding the demonstrable salubrious results garnered by the prophylactic practice of vaccination, the erratic Secretary of Health was adamant in his unsupported opposition to the procedure, stridently asserting his unproven and exotic charge that vaccination causes autism. It is empirically notable that the recent decline of vaccination programs has resulted in serious outbreaks of formerly eradicated diseases, such as measles. whooping cough, tuberculosis, flu, polio, and rubella. There are recent ominous predictions relating to the possible immigration of the deadly African disease, Ebola, into the American population.

Empirical results contradicting such an asserted, empirically spurious claim of autism are also irrefutably supported by clinical testing. The latter, as commonly known, is research involving human volunteers to evaluate the medical prevention, diagnosis, or treatment.

Common sense would recommend that the general population of Americans, universally vaccinated at several indicated stages in their lives, from birth to geriatric age, have been recipients of the contextual program; and if the exotic claim had any validity, the Nation would be awash with the infirmity. Since this is not the case, this ultimate clinical test puts to rest the bizarre theory.

Coincidentally, as the panel nodded unanimous agreement to the conclusion, an orange-haired, corpulent, red-tied individual was observed coming down a gold escalator, notably, out of earshot, and accompanied by greasy bits of hamburger detritus and ketchup conspicuously dripping on the gold banister, loudly exclaimed, “rigged decision!”

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Our present analogy to” lighthouses” refers to the traditional structures erected and operated to emit light to serve as a guiding beam to ships for navigational purposes’. In this writing, we employ such a phenomenon in an analogical fashion to the subject of the present peril to the democratic endurance of the Nation, currently threatened by the hazardous shoals of ignorance and political harm residing in the swirling currents of popular ignorance and reductive bias. The eponymous lighthouse keeper, nevertheless, dutifully maintains the directional light and monitors the weather and sea conditions in the responsible interest of ship safety.

This writing is an expression of a long-overdue fanfare and appropriately deserved tribute to those praiseworthy individuals who, despite the prevailing dystopian and unjust course of political turmoil, besetting our Democratic Republic, dutifully continue to keep the eternal light of reason from fading, and serve as guides to the continued path of the human exercise of moral advancement. History has consistently demonstrated that enlightened reason is the route to empirical wisdom and human success, and that the inexorable course of medieval Europe’s “Dark Ages” evincing non-empirical “knowledge” is the predictable way to tragedy, injustice, and human misery.

We would notably prefer that society’s enlightened, rational, and dedicated citizenry make its presence more affirmative and overt. Society’s subtle but invaluable guardians of rectitude and humanism, it is our analogously named “lighthouse keepers,” that, vitally and admirably, sustain the shaky guardrails of our vulnerable polity against its existential collision with the dark and ghastly. shoals of autocratic disaster.

Our trumpets blow strident fanfare, our drums beat dauntless tattoos, and our voices thunderously cry out the praises of the dauntless citizens, teachers, librarians, social workers, scientists, and all citizens eternally working toward the return to our traditional democracy and its ongoing progress toward full equality and personal fulfillment. We have earnest confidence in the consummate return of traditional American democracy, regarding which we bestow our kudos to our beleaguered, albeit adamantly humanistic and confident lighthouse keepers.

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The public media has been consumed with the shooting and killing of the 31-year-old, Conservative rising star, Charlie Kirk, at the start of his scheduled speaking engagement at Utah Valley University. The FBI and local enforcement agencies have, as usual, been tasked with informing the public about the circumstances of the criminal act and the steps to be taken to identify and apprehend the individual. Anecdotally, the youthful shooter turned himself in to authorities at the request of his family.

The tragic event seems to have consumed the greater part of the media’s time, relevant to the perceived impact of historically attempted and realized political assassinations, the latter, the empirical result of the tactical misreading of the language and intended scope of the Second Amendment. (See: plinyblog # M.357 “Occam s Razor”).

Disseminated photos of the apprehended killer appear to evince an expressionless, hypnotic, “wax museum-like” face; one, entirely undisturbed by the mere scintilla of human emotion or nuance, but rather of an expressionless and dull young man, as distinguised from one resembling the passion of a post-political assassin.

Personal nuance aside, we are shocked and dismayed at the occurrence of the event, and even further confirmed in our principled opposition to the misapprehended, but popularly held, belief in the universally acceptable constitutional franchise to own guns. As previously stated, guns have the sole utility to kill or maim other human beings; it is ineluctably deniable that the Founding Fathers intended to grant a franchise to all citizens of the new Republic, to be “gunslingers.”

We are greatly relieved and thankful that none of the pro-gun adherents has extolled or praised the confident skill and acumen to accomplish the tragic event with a single rifle bullet. Because we detest guns, we are systemically unable to grant kudos to the shooter for this unprecedented act. We are intellectually, morally, and emotionally thankful and relieved in principle that no one has publicly recognized the singular, demonstrated skill and confidence of this emotionless, zombie-like shooter.

We are unhappy, nevertheless, at the irrational and tactical designation of the mortal event as “Terrorism,” presumably intending to make somewhat more palatable, the constitutionally abusive, autocratic policy of utilizing the military for private policing purposes. One man is not a terrorist cell, even in the wide and ubiquitous scope of absurdity relative to the Trump-MAGA horde of populist reductionists

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Traditional American citizens, are understandably troubled by the contemporary march to authoritarianism, spearheaded by Donald Trump and his devoted cult. Each succeeding day, one is the recipient of news that yet another fundamental constitutional limitation on federal power has been overriden, and the repeated demonstration that the rule of law and societal precedent are cast aside, in favor of un-American authoritarian polity.

It is of existential importance that the mainstream, freedom-loving citizen consider the insidious tactics of those who manipulate the demonstrably hapless, neurotic, and incapable Donald Trump in the direction of “his desired authoritarianism.” In our view, the noxious and insidious procedure eludes the perception of the mainstream American citizen, and notably, Trump himself. neurotically consumed by personal egocentrism and primitive hubris. It is our presumption that the orange-haired imperial dunce is preoccupied with himself and has little motivation for political change. It is our singular presumption that Donald Trump is an unwiiting, utilitarian protagonist for a sub-rosa, undisclosed Fascist lobby, sponsored by others, far more capable.

If our singular (admittedly, unsupported) theory is accurate, we might discern an insidious pattern of malign action, utilizing the hapless Tr dedicated to transmogrifying the American Founders’ radical and enlightened experiment in liberal democracy insidiously, to an atavistic, authoritarian State.

To continue with our extant supposition, it would seem empirically efficient for such conspiratorial enemies of democracy to affirmatively utilize, rather than seek to destroy, the accepted institutions of democracy, in tactical aid of their nefarious program in favor of a dictatorship; rather than endeavoring to limit fundamental citizen rights, they dynamically utilize them to ultimately destroy their efficacy.

Should our instinctive observations have any verisimilitude, the recommended solution would not be the denial of the traditionally appropriate rights of every individual, but rather, when relevant, to appropriately remain aware of their anecdotally ultimate purpose.

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[N.B]: With apologies, the second-named protagonist in the following saga is a wasp (not a bee): However, the alteration of insect in the title sounds more euphonious.

Our regular readers know that we are cat owners, never owning fewer than two cats at a time. In an early writing, we indicated that the breed chosen has universally been “Devon Rex.” The Devon looks pretty much like the stereotypical alley cat, but lacks the common layer of feline “dander” under its fur, and so is non-allergenic. Additionally, notable are the subtle head wrinkles and short whiskers.

Our present lovable, furry tenants are “Gelato,” a masked face, gray, white, and brown, common-size cat, and a small, pink-nosed, snow-white, kitten-like (albeit mature) cat named “Bela” after Belarus, the country of her birth; the latter being the dramatic heroine of the present saga. However, before the revelation of the contextual episode, it would seem useful to reprise some earlier observations.

As recognized in such early writing, cats require less care than dogs; the latter require regular walking, irrespective of weather or busy schedule, while cats can unassistedly utilize a “litter box” for their natural needs (see: early writing “Literate Felines…”). However, domestic cats have a relatively short life span, viz., 10 to 15 years; as an empirical consequence, we have lived with several succeeding members of that warm and lovable species.

Our beloved Feline Dynasty includes “Cicero, ” regal, dignified, and contemplative; “Anchovie,” mischievous, rambunctious, lover of kosher-style deli, “Kudu,” regal, Victorian and adorned with a luxurious, Sax Fifth Avenue quality fur coat, “Gelato,” and “Bela” (see above). Bela, singularly, has a nuanced, squeaky “meow.” Needless to say, all of our pets have been the recipients of the status of “adjunct family members” and have been loved and treated accordingly, as ought to be the universal case regarding pet ownership.

It is contextually necessary to individualize our singular protagonist, “Bela.” While it has been our observation that pet cats, like their feral relatives, are acrobatic and agile, Bela, if she were a human gymnast, would qualify as a stellar performer at Le Cirque de Soliel or Ringling Brothers. She does not quietly pad into a room like other members of her species; she bounces into the scene. She is systemically energetic and gymnastic; we have humorously called her “slinky” because of her perpetual bounce and athleticism. In addition, Bela seems to regard herself as a talented and dedicated hunter. The instinct that motivates pussycats to pursue and paw at moving objects, including bugs, has been developed by her into a fine art. Any observed moving insect, regardless of size, venue, or speed, is not safe from her Olympic skills. It is an accepted feature of cat owners to anthropomorphize the movements or the perceived mood of cats, and we, in candor, plead guilty to that accusation. In our fantasized observation, she seems to revel in the successful capture of critters barely visible to the human eye. To further confess to our anthropomorphic inclination, we admire her skill and prowess in her chosen sport.

Yesterday afternoon, while engrossed in some routine and peaceful reading in our large windowed living room, we heard a painful, but all too recognizable, (squeaky) cry emanating from the area of one of the windows. We saw Bela agonizingly raising and licking her right front paw, and, to our perception, crying for relief. We found the tiny offending wasp, removed the small stinger from Bela’s paw, and attempted to soothe and relax the little sweetheart. As she stopped crying, we were able to discern the swollen right paw and surmised that, as was eminently probable, Bela had instinctively popped her paw on the moving wasp and was rewarded with the painful sting. Thereafter, we were downcast, observing that her paw was quite swollen and presumably quite uncomfortable.

To our relief, we were overjoyed the following morning to see little Bela bounce into the living room with her usual balletic penache.

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In Brazil’s 2022 general election, Jair Bolsonaro lost, but asserted claims that the election was rigged and engineered a failed coup against the Brazilian Government. The same was the subject of a criminal trial, conviction, and a prison sentence for 27 years plus 3 months..

On January 6, 2021, in response to his election loss to Joseph Biden, Donald J Trump had orchestrated a bloody insurrection, or coup, against the Washington Capitol Building, which was participated in by a large horde of insurgents on his factually unsupported claim that the election was “rigged.” Trump was never punished for his outrageously criminal act, the latter, resulting in loss of life, serious injuries to Capitol police, and desecration of the historic institution. Like Bolsonaro, Trump was demonstrably responsible for the attempted (and failed) coup d’état. But, unlike Bolsonaro, he suffered no analogous (or any) punishment. By happenstance, Trump managed to win the succeeding election, and as President, pardoned all of his loyal insurrectionists for their (Trump-inspired) crimes.

Notably, like the United States, Brazil is a Federal Republic with a tri-partite governmental architecture, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, established under a National Constitution.

Notably, the Trump Administration, which has chosen to be busy utilizing its autocratic wrecking ball against the Nation’s democratic institutions, has indicated its displeasure with the disposition of the criminal case by the Brazilian Courts against Bolsonaro and has stated that the United States would “respond accordingly.” This declaration is shameful and fundamentally perverse.

We were entirely discombobulated by the Alice-in-Wonderland distortion of reason, evident in such an outrageously undemocratic response by the dystopian minds of our current political Administration. Is criminal insurrection against a duly elected, Democratic Republic to be judged an esteemed act? Are arbitrary and completely unsupported claims of “foul,” solely based on subjective disappointment at the ballot box, a rationally acceptable basis for claims of election denial, and worse, for violent insurrection? If such were the case, democracy would be dynamically impossible.

Stated in the most diplomatic and objective lexicon, the type of persona demonstrated by Bolsonaro and Trump is, inarguably, not suitable for leaders of a Democratic Republic. For this reason, we have eternally advocated vetting all aspiring candidates for the American Presidency.

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The philosophical theory of William of Occam, popularly known as “Occam’s Razor,” states that when faced with competing explanations, the simplest one, requiring the fewest assumptions, is usually the correct one.

Yesterday, television viewers were greeted with yet another presentation of an obscene shooting; this one of a political figure, the 31-year-old Conservative, Charlie Kirk, at a public event in which he was the principal speaker. The ubiquitous variety and startling number of such tragic events appear empirically limitless; children at camp, school, or park, worshippers in churches and synagogues, in siores, on public streets, conceivably, any venue affording a gun lunatic, perceived enemies.

There is a universal media terpsichorial presentation following each such horrific event; the dance consists of (1) the interruption of general news programs unrelated to the event, televised statements by local politicians, and the local Sheriff, or Chief of Police, (2) broadcast shots of the venue and the fleeing crowd, (3) animated testimony from witnesses or attendees. (4) the exclusive dedication of the reporting media to several hours of related commentary and verbal conjectures, including those from familiar, retired FBI or police experts, conjectures as to the conceivable motive, and a recitation of techniques employed in such a criminal investigation and pursuit of the perpetrator. The experienced television patron can recognize, from frequent experience, the reprise of such standard commentary. (5)For the next few days, the respective media will present their regular commentators on the subject, and (6) immediately preceding the commercial message, the reaction of an excited witness, usually a female student or a tearful member of the victim’s family, pitifully relating the all-too-familiar lines of a traumatized witness.

We have tiresomely witnessed the predictable reprise of this performative media dance and the bland stereotypic utterances of “thoughts and prayers,” too often to resist the present statement of the effective antidote to this chronic disease, at the conclusion of this writing, one that, if he were alive, would predictably please Sir William Occam.

However, we might initially consider the limited utility of guns. Our small pocket knife, is useful for cutting string on packages, opening stubborn jar lids, slicing cheese, eating fruit, whittling, arts and crafts, sharpening wooden pencils, boring holes in materials, scraping off unwanted paint, and cleaning out small, structural cavities. By bright comparison, a gun’s utility is singularly restricted to killing and maiming, and, as an empirical matter, of no practical utility to a normally socialized individual.

The most distressing subject relates to the “right to bear arms,” as purportedly granted by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This intentional misreading of the subject Amendment is not excusable as a contextual error; it amounts to an intentionally tactical misreading of the Amendment by the NRA and others who substantially profit from their propagandistic sociopathy.

A mere cursory dip into American History will irrefutably disprove the populist claim that the subject Amendment regarding the “People’s right to bear arms” authorizes every citizen to be a “gunslinger.” An objective reading of history reveals that the Second Amendment is solely a statement of the ultimate settlement of a fundamental dispute relating to the nature of our new polity. History relates a fundamental dispute between the “Federalists,” who favored central government, and the supporters of separate state sovereignty.

The existence of an independent sovreignty was historically considered to depend upon the right of the entity to raise a standing army (militia) with the right to bear arms, The Second Amendment merely recites the ultimate settlement between the parties, which provided for a centralized polity, but the States (“the People”) granted the right to raise an independent armed militia, ( ” the People’s right to “bear arms.” ) We are emphatically obliged to presume that the NRA and the profuse members of the gun lobby include members who can, if desired, read the irrefutable history.

There never was a right to carry a gun, or for that matter, other conceivable “arms,” possibly, by extension, a hand grenade or rocket launcher; and we presume that the sociopathic supporters of this bogus “right” are perversely and profitably aware of it.

In view of the undeniable reality that guns are solely utilitarian in their capacity to kill or maim other members of civil society, and that there is no Constitutional franchise for their ownership, we can eschew the irrelevant debates concerning their legal sale and registration, gun shows, legal ownership, acceptability of military-grade armaments, vetting the determination of prerequisite mental health health and the like.

We would, justifiably, employ the contextual, Occam’s razor to the whole of the societally hazardous subject and expressly mandate the outlawing of all guns and instruments of homicide on the grounds of societal safety and basic humanistic considerations. There possibly,\ may be certain permitted exemptions, i.e, shotguns to farmers for protection of their animal stock from wild predators,

Aside from the far more cogent, societal and humanistic considerations, citizens do not reasonably require guns for their personal safety, any more than Grandma needs a Gatling gun installed on her sun porch for protection against rowdy neighbors.

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Omar Khayyam famously wrote: ” The Moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on; nor all thy Piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line.”William Shakespeare relevantly declared, “Hoisted by his own petard.” (Hamlet).

The two foregoing quotations might summarily suffice to convey the intended context and theme of the present writing; however, it is felt that, as a pragmatic matter, it might require a bit more exposition. The recovery of the smutty birthday card from Donald Trump sent to the celebrated avatar of degeneracy, Jeremy Epstein, put the “lie” to Trump’s prior energetically expressed denial of its existence and his relevantly false claims of “hoax.”

Trump, popularly acknowledged for his Olympian-scale serial mendacity, was consequently relegated to the absurd defense that the signature on the bottom of the card was not his. It is worth noting that Trump’s relevant signature was, inarguably, identical to the numerous personal signatures he displayed to the press and televised to the public on the occasion of each of his many “Executive Orders.” His readily identifiable, magisterially executed signatures, universally marked with a hubristic flourish, appropriate to his egoistic neurosis, are executed by the employment of a wide-tipped black velvet “Sharpie” and are singularly identical.

Trump’s initial denials of the very existence of the sexually erotic birthday card sent to Jeffrey Epstein were emphatically decried by him as a “democrat hoax.” However, when incriminatingly found, his subsequent denial of his nuanced signature might empirically suggest that the identical signatures on his undemocratic and intrinsically illegal Executive Orders do not bear his authentic signature. This would result in the negation of hundreds of his Executive Orders, happily including his dismissal of the Department of Education, and USAID, his discharge of the CDC and other vital health agencies, his illegal use of the military, his autocratic harassment of Universities, and law firms, his unprecedented cruelty to immigrant Americans, his dismissal of student loan relief., his desecration of environmental watchdog agencies, including the EPA and countless other despicable Executive Orders.

The public display of Trump’s idiosyncratic signature to all of such egregiously un-American Executive Orders consistently reprises the identicaly nuanced, broad, black velvet-tipped signature of the hubristic Chief Executive. One would predict that the dishonorable Chief Executive would, if called upon, confirm the authenticity of his identifiable signature on all documents, other than the incriminating love missive to the wholesale child molester and close personal friend, Jeffrey Epstein.

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It is September, time for the annual meeting of the “Citizens For Decorum Inc., a/k/a “CPD,” a Domestic, Not-For-Profit. entity, whose stated corporate purpose is the reduction of America’s national strife, by the dedicated and programmatic avoidance of acrimonious interaction between political opponents.

The advent of the thematic entity, in or about February 2017, was coincident with, or perhaps catalyzed by, the prior election of Donald J. Trump to the Office of the American Presidency. At the date of the official filing of the Certificate of Incorporation, for C.F.D. inc., consisted of as many as 20 dedicated shareholders; as of the date of this writing, the number has increased exponentially to a record 4,000. Telephonic requests for membership continue to be received at the corporate offices in Washington, D.C., from American citizens, notably based upon the stated desire for the amelioration of tiresome and disconcerting bellicose interaction between citizens of diverse political persuasion, appropriate to a political system of governance, as intended by its Founders to be governed “by and for its People.”.

As observed in earlier writings, the Nation’s idealistic Founders, if alive, would be gravely disappointed with the blasé philosophical character of the contemporary American citizen. What developed, in empirical reality, contrary to their expectations, was an eternal “Cold W” between citizens in divergent camps of groupthink opinions and the resultant impossibility of reasonable and useful debate of the issues.

To aggravate matters, on the surprise ascension of Donald J. Trump to the Oval Office, any hope of the achievement of the Founders’ expectations relative to the benefits of useful debate morphed into a Pollyannaish dream. Analogous to the spread of disease by Typhoid Annie, Trump toxically introduced, and MAGA adherents succumbed to and metastasized, the singularly bizarre conceptual epidemic of “Alternative Facts.” In addition to the latter’s empirical absurdity, the virulent spread of such tactical infection made any reasonably useful exchange of views between diversely opinioned parties futile; and sadly led to inter-actively aggressive responses, so that, thematically, even the casual discussion of divergent issues became distantly cold, interplanatory, and pragmatically futile.

The mainstream American can best (and salubriously) spend his time objectively, presenting the political issues as well as the merits of proposed candidates, to factually oriented citizens capable of unbiased reason and moral humanism. Enough traditionally oriented voters will, predictably, carry the day.

Exasperated citizens desirous of affiliating with other peaceful promoters of traditionally American political beliefs to non-belligerent citizens are eternally invited to become active participants and shareholders in the non-disputatious, not-for-profit, political entity, “CFD, Inc.”

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