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saying everything's gonna be okay isn't as reassuring as you might think.

I'm not trying to assure you that everything is going to be okay...it's not and it has never been.

But as far as Democracy goes...? I think we're safe for now. Didja see how the wannabe anti-democracy former president was handled?

He was booted from office via democracy and his anti-democratic mob is being handed longer and longer sentences for their crimes as we type these words.

Due entirely to his efforts the Democratic Party is set to perform historically well in the upcoming midterms despite a faltering economy and a presidential approval rate that would normally drag them down and lose both houses of congress for them.

Remember Frank Roosevelt? America loved him so much that he was elected to four terms.
Literally made President For Life with the consent of the American people.

Can you imagine how pissed off Republicans were during that ENTIRE time...?

Right around that time, his ideological opposite had come into power in the Weimar Republic.

Frank's head exploded. Adolph blew his brains out. And the brains behind the socialist USSR, an aging Lenin, passed his legacy on to the strongman Stalin as the people judged a strong-man would be needed for the upcoming storm...

And everything was as okay as things ever are.

Fast forward to today. Germany has done just fine. The US doesn't appear to be in any imminent danger of appointing a dictator, and Russia is fecked...the one nation that pretty much stuck with authoritarian-style leaders.

Everything is not okay. And it's never gonna be. So forgive me for not jumping up and down and pulling my hair at every indication that things are not okay.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...