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Jim Bob Moore's avatar

Ah, if only escape were as simple as Townes had envisioned.

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Jim Bob Moore's avatar

It's a pretty great place, has always held a big piece of my heart.

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Jim Bob Moore's avatar

If it doesn't, we deserve what we get, Ed.

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Jim Bob Moore's avatar

Might even transcend that descriptive.

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John McCaa's avatar

I am reminded of something from the Founder John Adams who abhorred slavery (but supported only "gradual" abolition) and understood the hypocrisy of the young nation's championing of the idea that "All men are created equal" "REMEMBER DEMOCRACY NEVER LASTS LONG, IT SOON WASTES, EXHAUSTS, AND MURDERS ITSELF. THERE NEVER WAS A DEMOCRACY YET, THAT DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE." We weekly seem bent on proving his prediction true

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Jim Bob Moore's avatar

As much as I disagree with Adam's approach to abolition, gradualism may have been the only hope of his time to create the "more perfect union." We are working now on a less perfect union, and our gradualism is moving us inevitably toward the cliff and the suicide one of our great founders thought possible. Sic transit gloria, buddy.

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Ed Mahoney's avatar

My hope is that the political actions of SCOTUS will drive Democrats to vote.

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Mauri's avatar

Terrifying.

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cognomun's avatar

Where exactly do we go from here, you ask? I'm thinking Colorado.

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Sonny Bohanan's avatar

We are engaged in an existential fight for the soul of the nation, and for our very lives.

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