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When I opened my email and saw the headline, I was confused, because last night I did a little inventory check of what I have written on my substack so far this year and it is just pretty much the same theme: community, community, community. I hadn't realized it, but it is apparently thematic.

As for containing chaos, I disagree slightly, but only because after my all the writing and researching I did over the years with my project docu-mental, I came to see that the chaos is generated by them. They aren't afraid of it, they create and weaponize it. And then it's not about boundaries, it's about separating us from one another so they can divide and conquer.

Mitch McConnell's behavior is and always has been one thing: fascist. And as I have commented in here more than once, all fascism is when you boil it down is systematic and lethal snobbery: We're better than all the rest of you shits.

Since leaving DC and now living in rural Kentucky, yes. No one talks about pronouns, because no one gives a shit. People are neighborly because that is how people are. All this other nonsense is made up. I am starting to wonder about the numbers and ratings for talk radio. Are they even real? No one seems to listen to it here. If they do, they don't mention it. I never hear it coming from anyone's pickup truck, either.

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Oh, yes, they fear the chaos, and their leaders generate the chaos to fuel the fear. It's a cycle of abuse, really, no different than any other cult.

Good to hear about rural Kentucky.

There are certainly MAGA everywhere, even here, in my blue-as-can-be town. Saw an older man in the Shop Rite last week wearing a new Trump hat, oblivious to be glaring at him. I don't understand why people insist on advertising their asshole-ness. It's fundamentally the same as flashing me on the subway. I don't want to see that thing!

But they are fewer and farther between. The flags on the houses are faded, and the houses are always, unfirmly, the shittiest houses, by which I mean, the messiest...the most chaotic. I think the GOp has quietly moved from boosted Trump to bashing Biden. It's easier.

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Good point. Death cult

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