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We're not going to be able to fix the boat with a country as divided as ours. Half of us are hopelessly bailing out water instead of fixing the problems, and the other half are drilling holes in the hull with big grins on their faces.


> We're not going to be able to fix the boat with a country as divided as ours.

You are correct. However, I couldn't see how we could have fixed it before. In the US, every possible group of people was fully mired in a state of

    No One Anywhere Wants To Clean Their Own House.
I couldn't see how anything could improve before, not while that principle dominated everything. And it's still that now, just 10x worse.




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