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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 11:16:51 -0700
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On 5/31/2025 10:26 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/31/25 09:21, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:41:39 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/30/25 08:19, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Canadian and European "Conservative" are different than USA 
>>>>> "Conservative".
>>>>
>>>> The USA "conservative" is different than what it was five years ago.
>>>> --scott
>>>
>>>     Only some of them are now fascists but they are sycophantic 
>>> toward the
>>> current president and afraid of the MAGA horde.  Some Republicans were
>>> alway authoritaians
>>> to start with but now have taken their mask off. Some have a long
>>> history of idiocy.
>>
>> Fair enough, but I would not limit this to Republicans. The problem
>> may not be so severe with the Democrats, but it is definitely there.
>>
>> Seattle is currently (well, as of yesterday or the day before)
>> undergoing national scrutiny for having a mayor who kept his mouth
>> open after he had said enough for the situation. He is several steps
>> closer to the center than his predecessor, but we clearly need a mayor
>> who is several steps closer to the center than he appears to be.
> 
>      If you live in Seattle then perhaps you are correct. I live in San 
> Francisco as you
> may have gathered and we have one of the very rich as Mayor currently 
> and he might
> be close to the center but may be missing the human experience of the 
> less well
> compensated in our SF society.  It is very expensive to live in San 
> Francisco and
> if I had not aged in my apartment for the last 50+ years I could not 
> afford to
> be here (or live in any other desirable place). I would be in a van down 
> by the
> River giving motivational speeches to HS students or in a tent or 
> cardboard shack
> on the street. Willie Brown was mayor a few years back and he wanted people
> with incomes under $50,000 per annum to leave. But it takes an income now
> of $117,000/per annum to afford to have a home in California. Mine is only
> about $25,000/year but with rent control I hang on just for access to the
> SF Public Library.  Willie Brown is a centrist but corporate Democratic 
> Party
> leader here in retirement.
> 
>      Oh would a review of a recent Batman hardcover comic compilation
> be welcome or appreciated here. I put it up in alt.comics.batman if anyone
> wants to bother.  Title is "Batman Dark Age".
> 
>      bliss - we need 3 dimensional political party descriptions

More like 17 dimensional axis.


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