Hey, remember how the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed and everybody went Yay! and then American conservative ideologues thought it would be a bright idea to immediately privatize a major economic system that had been centralized for generations and then all the power ended up in the hands of a few oligarchs who were then easily cowed by a former KGB agent on the make and now shit’s perennially fucked for the neighbors?

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Our guest columnists stand united against the citizens of a free republic.

WHEREAS, The primary mission of the Republican Party is to elect Republicans who support the United States Constitution and share our values;

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Justin Bieber spent $1.3 million for a digital receipt of an unremarkable monkey cartoon, and we dunno, seems you could just get one of these for twenty bucks. Plus framing.

We’ve made our peace.

The fight isn’t over — it’ll never be over — but we’re done for this round. We fear what the next round will bring, but since there’s nothing we can do to stop it, and the people in a position to stop it have other priorities, we’ll just have to get along with shit as it is, rather than as it should be.

It’s The Great Resignation. But not the one you’re hearing about.

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Things are not going to get better.

It’s not that the problems are too entrenched, it’s that the people are too stupid. Enough of them, anyway. Enough of them to tip the balance in a system that’s already wildly imbalanced in their favor.

We’ve run out of hope.

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