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Veteran journalist, author, opinion columnist based in the ATL
"We have sold our birthright for a ticket to the freak show."
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By multiples, maybe.
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Dems need to be putting human faces on this. The newly-minted forest ranger fired for no reason, the CDC scientist whose bird-flu research has been eliminated, the air traffic controller sounding the alarm over flight safety - with the backdrop of a giggling sociopath wielding a gold chainsaw.
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I'm pretty sure the corporal has left this Earth, unless he's come back as that sheepdog he always bragged about being.
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Darn. I was hoping that the author of that was ME!
The corporal and Johnny Reb would be in their glory now, would they not?
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That does ring a bell!
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Big Walter had some wisdom in that 'Nam-addled skull of his.
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Sometimes a half-assed solution is better than no solution. Sometimes it makes things even worse.
This is the latter.
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The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine. The civil rights movement here in the US. The end of apartheid in South Africa. Street protests blocked the coup attempt in South Korea and the Bolsonaro coup in Brazil. The list is long.
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No. There is no winning an armed rebellion. If you go that route you're trying to fight on their terms, on their turf, where they have every advantage.
It's just crazy we need to even be debating such things.
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What is Step Two?
In a lot of revolts against tyranny, gov't violence against dissenters is the necessary catalyst for broad public reaction. Sad but true.