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Zorro

(17,807 posts)
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 08:52 AM Jul 4

Our democracy looks a bit like 'Mad Max - Pennsylvania Avenue'

Dear Democracy,

You just turned 249, and the years are starting to show. You’re getting sorta creaky and the liver spots are getting, well, darker. I barely recognize you these days.

It’s understandable, of course. You’ve been under a great deal of stress lately. This is what happens in families when a relative goes absolutely, completely bat crazy.

No doubt your founding parents are spinning in their graves as they watch the country you were born into become a dystopian version of “Mad Max - Pennsylvania Avenue.”

It also has probably not gone unnoticed by you that we are now led by a real life unhinged, tyrannical replicant of “Animal House’s” Bluto Blutarsky, only with access to the nuclear codes.

https://www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2025/07/04/our-democracy-looks-bit-like-mad-max-pennsylvania-avenue-column/

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Our democracy looks a bit like 'Mad Max - Pennsylvania Avenue' (Original Post) Zorro Jul 4 OP
"This is what happens in families when a relative goes absolutely, completely bat crazy." J_William_Ryan Jul 4 #1

J_William_Ryan

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1. "This is what happens in families when a relative goes absolutely, completely bat crazy."
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 09:27 AM
Jul 4

Democracy bears much responsibility for this disaster, of course – democracy’s tragic flaw: the voters; their fear, ignorance, and stupidity, their racism, bigotry, and hate.

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