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QueerDuck

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35. Amen.

Reply to gulliver (Reply #28)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 07:27 AM

10 hrs ago

As much as we hear how much the up-and-comers hate "the establishment", it's clear to me that the most vocal opponents do not have a realistic understanding of how government works. In due time some of these outspoken voices occasionally get elected... and lo-and-behold... when their vim-and-vigor and anger fails to produce results, they too become "establishment" and work within the rules, making deals, sharing power, giving-and-getting, finding common ground... exactly as many of the ones before them did.

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