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[snip] “One of the most important victories of the Republican Party was to convince people in the suburbs to vote their fears and their wild fantasies rather than their interests,” writes Stirling Newberry at tpmcafe.com. “Reagan won everywhere because there were suburbanites everywhere. . . . The exfoleyation of the Republican Congress, the bubbling gambling scandal, and the crumbling of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan strike at the heart of the argument . . . that the Republicans are the party that will protect you.” –Harold Henderson | hhenderson@chicagoreader.com
[snip] “All things considered, it will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely,” writes Bob Holmes in New Scientist. “Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find no obvious signs that an advanced civilisation ever lived here.” –HH
