I am not very optimistic this July 4th. It's not just that in the process of fighting Islamic extremism, we are losing the character of society that we boast about. It is also that out government is populated by buffoons in the service of big business or isolated by privilege who are the product of structural defects in our political system that are in no danger of being fixed. Certainly

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