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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: marco100   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Who Will Lead Us?
Date: 11/30/25 11:02 AM
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Pastor Z,

Again you spend a lot of words but ultimately evading your responsibility as a member of the body politic to actually make a decision.

You carp, whine, complain, bitch, moan...constantly..

and yet--you don't even know what you personally actually stand for.

You don't even have the ability to tell us which of the currently-available crop of politicians on the Dem or Progressive side, that you believe would have a fair shot at unifying the electorate and obtaining a working majority.

In your opinion.

If you want to say Mamdani, O.K.
If you want to say AOC or Bernie, O.K.

If you want to say Kamala, O.K.

Fetterman? O.K.

Shapiro? O.K.

Warren? O.K.

And so forth.

Anyone of your choice.

Refusing to make a choice is of course, a choice.

If you asked me who I think would be a good Repubican candidate for 2028, I can answer you with several viable options (again from my point of view):

Rubio
Vance
Cruz

They are all in the game, they are all potentially having the ability to win the Republican primaries in 2028.

Does that mean they will beat whoever the Dem is? No.

Does that mean some unknown might not emerge as a candidate in the next couple of years? No.

If the situation changes in the future, we can of course always modify our position--up to the day of the election.

But you abdicate your own personal responsibility to make a choice, instead, preferring to live in a delusional fantasy land where someone else tells you what to think and how to choose.

Remember: Not choosing is itself a choice.
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