On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Guess we had different childhoods.


Apparently so.


> I was a kid back then as well and
> was dirt poor because of a terrible recession and saw no help from
> "trickle down economics",


We were comfortably middle class.


> scared of a nuclear holocaust because of his
> saber rattling and disgusted with the mendacity of my government that
> claimed to represent the "greatest nation on earth".


Oh? This is you at 4 years old huh? wow. Yes, we definitely had different
childhoods, because you were some sort of prodigy super genius. I was
watching Transformers.


>  I found nothing
> remotely comforting about him. Maybe I was just entirely too aware as
> a child.
>

Sounds like it. I feel a bit sorry for you for that. Feeling safe and
secure is important for healthy childhood development.


> Did we survive? Yeah, sure, in a diminished form. Will we keep
> surviving as a country? The answer is certainly no. The question is:
> how long.
>

A loooong, looong time.


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