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Bard and most of the people he hangs out with aren't directly affected by the current slowdown. They are surviving on work from home jobs, and unlike the great recession, aren't waiting for their portfolios of sticks to recover from a fifty plus percent drop. So perhaps the economic woes which seem particularly theoretical to them just don't outweigh theoretical concerns and inflation.

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<i>the combination of Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump have lost America a generation of societal progress and have accelerated by a generation the shift from an America- to an other-centered world. This may turn out to be an even faster loss of economic and geopolitical paramouncy than that experienced by the British Empire in the first half of the 1900s.</i>

I've spent 40 years or so marveling at the fact that Rs have managed to sell Reagan as anything other than a disaster for the US.

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