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Dixon
Thus far, we have wandered pellmell through several fabled lands, always within a snapshot of their lengthy histories. Always getting a sample of their people in the midst of events that have been brewing for ages, perhaps repeating endlessly but maybe not, we have explored what must seem like an alternative history. If we are to be of the utmost brevity, the people do not behave as one might expect them to, unless one is indeed a hostile cynic. And yet, although we intend to continue in this vein, there is another history begging to be heard; not for any need of its own, rather it begs to offer a scrap of background in the mosaic we have the honor to present. It does not need us to understand, but we need it, in order to make sense of our hero's admittedly unusual experience.
By H. Robert Mac5 years ago in The Swamp
'I want him out': GOP senator calls for Trump to be ousted from White House
In a candid interview on Friday, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined a growing and bipartisan list of lawmakers clamoring for Donald Trump to be forced out of office in the final days of his one-term presidency.
By Chris Agee5 years ago in The Swamp
The tragedy of the world's largest, oldest, richest democracy!
The alarm that had been circulating in the United States for the past four years has finally come true. So while the US Capitol is being sworn in by newly elected President Joe Biden and newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris, the attack on the building by incumbent President Donald Trump's hired thugs (calling them supporters) is unprecedented. Was not.
By Yogesh Sawant5 years ago in The Swamp
Britain; in the Age of Brexit...
I have been wondering about this question ever since the referendum stated that Brexit was, of course, going to go ahead. What did these people think that Brexit was? Was it going to be exactly what people voted for or something entirely different altogether? And, at the age I was - I was old enough to vote but probably not smart enough to understand what people who voted 'leave' were actually voting for.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in The Swamp
The Conservative Contradiction
There are very few people in Western capitalist societies, I would allege, that would disagree with a simple observation: Orwellian allusions are the great cliché of our times. At present, it is conservatives who retread those familiar steps to the well of '1984' and 'Animal Farm', bucket scraping violently against the gravel bottom as they reach that exhausted font. The storming of the Capitol in the United States has provoked many consequences for the purveyors of conservative thought; by virtue of their relative ascendance in political life, those same consequences have, unfortunately, a filtered effect on the rest of us. But there is one outcome which has filled the mouths and minds of talking heads across the globe: the President of the United States has been permanently banned from Twitter.
By Reagan Scott Ward5 years ago in The Swamp
My Fellow Americans
A little bit about me Before you read this, please note that I’m not a political person. I’m not a person that gets worked up very often either. I’ve always had a live and let live approach to life, something that this country has always allowed me to have. But lately, I find myself absolutely disgusted with this country, it’s leaders and unfortunately it’s people.
By Alistair Kingsley5 years ago in The Swamp
We Need A Future Without COVID-19
People are dying everyday. I wish we lived in a world where no one died. COVID-19 has caused a lot of stress and I'm afraid it might even get bigger or mutate into a deadlier strain. I wish I was not a brutally pessimistic person. I believe that we, as a human-race, are far more capable of leading a more beautiful and safer life than what we're doing now.
By Rajaroy Joseph Alphonse5 years ago in The Swamp
