The founding generation would have found it much easier to imagine a guy named Abdul becoming Senator than the Pope being American

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i do not understand why people cannot understand that voting is a decision where some of the world's evils are on one side of a single line, some are on both sides, and -- in the US -- almost every remaining evil is on one side. if you want to change where the line is drawn, voting isn't about that.

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i do not know what it means for something to be 'unacceptable' and obligatory. that's just a difference in what words you're obliged to say to discharge your responsibility... while doing exactly the same thing.

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great. then you agree with me, you just think that i should also have said something which tries to evade responsibility.

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how do you propose to do that without winning elections

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