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"The presumption that US elections are legitimate died last week in Washington.
It was 237 years old. It did not die of one wound. It died of three, inflicted
in a single day, in daylight, on the record. And the country, running to the
loudest of them, never examined the one most likely to kill.
In critical care we distinguish the mechanism of death from its cause. The
mechanism was a Thursday. The cause was chronic, progressive and untreated.
The morning belonged to the secretary of state. Before officials of more than
60 countries, he announced that the counterterrorism architecture of the free
world, built over a generation against jihadist mass murder, should be rebuilt
and aimed at the domestic left. He named a transnational enemy defined by
hatred of the west, “a revolt of the worst against the best”. He tied it to
Iran and to Cuba and offered no evidence for either link. He said the
journalists and thinktanks who might check the claims often agree with the
enemy’s goals. The move is old and reliable: discredit the second opinion in
advance."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
