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The Pursuit of Happiness
“It is the fear of being called a coward that makes most men courageous in a crisis; but real courage, which is rare, consists in doing what you know is right, regardless of what men may call you.” (Sydney Harris)
All the socio-political divisions in our valuable political discourse — guns, abortion, identity, immigration — reveal one clarifying consistency. The thing that the right-wingnuts are most pissed off about is the fact that no one is as afraid of them as they themselves are of everything else. Considering the Bundy ranch, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, “blood and soil!” chants in Virginia, the Capitol insurgency and any other fascistic tantrums coming down the pike, it’s almost funny the way violence never hurts conservative commercial or Republican electoral fortunes in the view of our punditocracy. When it all began, Revolution was the pursuit of happiness. Happiness is now the pursuit of Revolution.
Remember all those Central American migrant caravans that George Soros paid to invade the United States so MS-13 could kill us all when the Democrats flipped Congress? Right, neither does anyone else. Especially the assholes who made it all up for their own cynical fearmongering benefit. Globalists are the enemies of the flat earth cult. The flat earth cult is always horny for the rockets red glare and any other star spangled bullshit bursting in air. There are…