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We Have the Government We Deserve
First, if you failed to vote, you relinquished your right to whine about the results;
Steve Rossiter , Bio and Archives--November 4, 2026
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We the citizens of the United States of America will have the government we deserve on January 3, 2027. Whether you, as an individual American voter, have the government you wanted is another question entirely.
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." – Plato
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak, and not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
First, if you failed to vote, you relinquished your right to whine about the results. To paraphrase Bonhoeffer: not to vote is to vote for what you don’t want. Failure to vote means that deep down in your very being you simply don’t give a rat’s ass about........