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Thank you. Excellent column. Biden and his Democrat ilk are actually more dangerous than the Republicans because they cloak what they are actually doing with nice words and sweet nothing promises. Their base, anyway, is afraid to hold them to their promises or to doing the right thing because then they assume they'd get the supposedly even worse Republicans. Basically, as long as we have this enforced two-party-only political system, we're fucked.

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Aug 14, 2023Liked by Birrion Sondahl

I was in the first 19 year old cohort that participated in a presidential election in 1972. Unlike the majority of my peers I voted for George McGovern. Little did I realize at the time my missing the opportunity to support the most leftist president of my life, Richard M Nixon. Let that sink in ... Nixon, Nixon who if he could run today would be far to the left of Strom Thurmond's buddy, Joe Biden.

Nixon's administration created the EPA and enacted the Clean Water Act. Can you imagine Biden doing anything as substantive in another term much less in the conclusion the current one?

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Nixon also crushed the Black Panther Party and went after Ellsberg. But yeah, it's pretty sad that Biden is to the right of him.

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