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Delaware GOP Candidate: 'Separation of Church and State' Came from Hitler

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Mad Prophet Ludwig9/22/2010 6:08:54 pm PDT

re: #439 Decatur Deb

Politics is a lot more elastic than Physics, that’s why we have lasted this long. You’ve pretty well got me convinced, however, that we are at the end of the Muddling-through Phase.

Politics is elastic up until the finality of a gunshot, the reality of starvation and the imposition of tyranny. Then it becomes very simple and the comfortable illusions we embrace disappear.

On the path we are on now, the United States will produce less food than is needed to feed more than half of its population by 2100 (on a very optimistic estimate). It could reasonably be expected to get as bad as not enough food for one in four, or even one in six. As unlikely as one in two is one in ten.

Say it is one in three. What sort of government decides who the unlucky two out of three are?

Talk of democracy at such a point is ludicrous.

An analogy to this “will not to believe” is harbored by every obese smoker in his 50’s that my brother treats. They all think that heart attacks and strokes will not happen to them. They believe that somehow the laws of physics do not apply to them. It is as if a politician told them they could ban heart attacks and they would vote against them. Once the heart stops, such comfortable, but dangerous and silly, illusions die with the owner.