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I’m sorry to hear that about your family and I will pray for your kids’ recovery to full health.

Voting is great, but we fetishize it too much in this country. Jonah Goldberg talks about voting being the last stop of citizenship not the first. I knew a guy who actually planned to flip a coin in the voting booth in 2020. I doubt he went through with that but he honestly didn’t care. Voting for no good reason is not an act of civic responsibility.

I’m entirely with you about the need to rekindle civic virtue in this country. It takes a lot more than voting and tweeting. And a majority of Americans seem not to know the true definition of civic virtue today.

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Man, sometimes it's like you're speaking directly to and FOR me. Back during the "Obama phone" election there were black people being interviewed that outright BEGGED Republicans to come to their area and present their ideas. I watched several videos of small business owners who rejected the premises of progressivism right on camera and said they'd offer the venue, even free food if only someone would come hear them.

That's my hope with the redistricting going on. People forget that a lot of the gerrymandering was done at the behest and participation of people who wanted 'minority districts'. This isolated POC into islands that could be and often are controlled by demagogues who happen to share skin color w/the majority of people in their little gerrymandered district.

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