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[Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankwitz@gmail.com>]

LOL John Young...Congressional rituals appeared overly dainty and passe, it is true...

To Felix...

<The other question is if the democratic party, and Biden in particular,
is willing/able to use the new slim majorities to enact transformational
change. I think there is a strong inclination among the Obama centrists
who seem to be dominating the new administration to see Trump as an
aberration -- creating by the Russians, Cambridge Analytica or some
other force unrelated to them -->

Yes, very true...a resurgence of the coastal elitism which Trump railed on on behalf of his base.

<and go back to the status quo before
Trump.>

Attempt to bring about "certainty"?

<The only area where there seems to a real political will to
implement change, rather than simply 'restore decency'>

Let's hope Biden's presidency will not simply slip into this role only...as he, while more comforting than wild Don,

can be anemic...

<is climate change, which, of course, would be a catalyst for much wider changes if
taken seriously>

I believe yesterday was an ingenious smokescreen invented by Trump & Co...as patriotism...to obscure the fact that in the last two weeks Trump

has auctioned off the Arctic wilderness to fossil fuel companies...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/05/trump-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-lease-sales

and ended endangered species protections for wolves

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gray-wolf-removed-endangered-species-act/

and is currently trying to limit civil rights for minorities -

https://worldnewsera.com/news/us-news/justice-dept-seeks-to-pare-back-civil-rights-protections-for-minorities/

"The Trump administration has long sought to eliminate protections for groups at risk of suffering such impacts,

arguing that the Civil Rights Act as passed by Congress only safeguards against intentional acts of discrimination."

Elvis is leaving the building...!

Molly

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:31 PM John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

Yesterday was thrilling for its replication of 1968 in challenging
status quo across many stolidities of thought, behavior, belief,
acceptance, complaint, compliance, modest defiance, embrace of
bipartisanship, hypnotic left-right cum socialist-capitalist ifatuous
deology, intellectual vacuity secured by tenure and perquisites,
condescension toward the unlearned, prattling of stale truisms, idle
sophistry of argument, ample funding of compendia of little read
volumes of propriety and profiteering.

68 tipped the rancid tub of placidity and before injection of
precarity entered the cliche-driven market, there were a few years of
turmoil, some fatalities at Kent State and the West Village, a few
break-ins at FBI offices and blood splatterings at military bases,
levitation of the Pentagon, trials of celebrity dissidents, police
bombings of Philly rowhouses, seeds of feminism implanted, sexual
liberation of birth control narcotics. All this before the aging
rebels were enlisted by academia to herd the young upcoming teens
into chutes of branding and alumnae funding.

The Capitol Liberation, brief as it was, got widespread media play
almost effortlessly, followed by resulsive outpouring of
opportunistic bray about democracy at risk, which by today had become
as stale, rancid and deflated of novelty and significance as days
before the Georgia election.

Congress pulled an all-nighter then left town with nothing to show
for the squeals of rhetoric about Capitol Police failure, 25th
Amendment, impeachment, clipping Trump's social media wings,
amounting to who the fuck cares, let's get back to Covid-19 agoniste.

Is January 2021 to finally supplant May 1968 as navel gazing of the
best and brightest (cliches abundant)? Sleepy Joe and silent Kamala
do not appear to be prepared to combat Pence pardoning Trump than
Gerald Ford Nixon. Bring up the bodies even if QAnon and ilk.

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