The tricky part is that Germany was beaten in a war and had external forces standing over them forcing them to clean house. That's not going to happen to the US, so there's not going to be that sort of house-cleaning happening.

I'm not struggling. It's not my responsibility to put any effort into this at all. I'll trust America when they've fixed the things that make them untrustworthy.

Which unfortunately includes their electorate, so that's going to take a while.

I agree with point #9 wholeheartedly.

No, this has nothing to do with agnosticism. Unless you're using the word in the "I feel vaguely wishy washy about all this and don't want to commit to a position" sense. Not its original technical meaning but popular these days.

"Unconscious force" just sounds like physics to me.

Sure, but only by consensus. We make words up and they are only useful if most people who hear them give them roughly the same meaning.

When Hitler was in his bunker at the end of the war he spent a lot of time reviewing the plans for grand monuments and architecture for Berlin. Same vibes here.

At least I get to keep my face.

Make sure you use a smart search and replace tool, though. I still remember many years later reading a story with a protagonist named Virginia, and then hitting a scene with a bunch of commentary about a character's "vaVirginia". It was memorable both for the "suddenly pornography" element of it and also the "ah, in an earlier draft of this story the protagonist's name used to be shortened to Gina!" realization.

So you're telling me this is "buy" time...?

It's nice to have representation.

The whole point of hope is to get it up. It drives action.

True, the Democrats are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But maybe they'll fuck up fucking it up this time around.