How is this possible? Unfortunately, it seems, all too easily. From /r/lostgeneration on Reddit.   These people are dying to reopen Applebee’s. from r/lostgeneration

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Bill Weld is an odd duck to say the least. As governor of Massachusetts, he led the charge for privatization of state resources. (It didn’t always go well. I know. I was in the state at the time.) Then, as the vice presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, he did his best to help shift…

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From the Editor’s Desk I had an interesting thought the other day. It’s not necessarily profound or anything, but it did occur to me that I’ve seeing a lot of articles lately about how China is overtaking us. The People’s Republic is becoming, we suspect, the world’s dominant power, and leaving us in the dust.…

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So tomorrow is the big day — Election Day, the best chance we have hobbling (if not removing) the Orange Fascists in Washington until 2020. So, definitely, get out there and vote if you haven’t done so already. Why wouldn’t you vote? Well, laziness, indifference, stupidity…and, here’s an odd one…the feeling that voting is not…

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So, there’s a fascinating article over on the Atlantic you ought to see. In Was Gary Hart Set Up? James Follows answers his own question with, yeah, probably. You’ll recall that Gary Hart was a frontrunner for president in 1987. But, then, surprise! He was caught in what looked like an affair aboard the U.S.S.…

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Yesterday, I begged you not to vote for a Third Party, at least not just yet. Maybe in a few years, yes, we can work for a Green Party or a Social Democratic Party that can function at the national level. But right now, with Trumpian Fascists running the GOP, we have to support the…

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Yesterday, I asked you to please, Please, PLEASE vote. Well, today, I’m going to ask you for another favor. And it is almost as big. I’m going to ask you not to vote for someone who can’t win. Specifically, I am going to ask you…beg you!…not to vote for a Third Party if it might…

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