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Kurt's avatar

David, did you ever try your hand at political speech writing? You matched up a tumultuous moment in time with a poetic description and an aspirational call to action, all with an eye toward history.

I’ll bet you could go far with that and your candidates would blaze to glorious victory on the wings of your words. Mild-mannered Substack author by day, king-maker extraordinaire by night.

Just saying. The unexamined life is not worth living, and the country could use a few sane folks to keep the ship of state from running off the rails, if I may mince a metaphor.

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the Crab's avatar

You wrote, “the offensive and often racist rhetoric of the far-right populist Hubert Humphrey.” Did you mean George Wallace? Hubert Humphrey may have been a chunky White boy, but I don’t think anyone ever accused him of racism or being far right.

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