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Roger E Edmondson's avatar

There isn’t anything meaningful in terms of real importance on the list. At least nothing any administration can achieve considering the new president enters as a lame duck. I am more concerned about the insertion of incompetence in the form of his cabinet choices. The biggest threat are people who don’t know they are incompetent and take on objectives that are unachievable.

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Jim Robillard's avatar

Incompetence is an issue, but controllable in an otherwise ethical administration. My concern is that the cabinet will be malicious and actively attack our democracy to build an autocracy run by billionaires. Examples of this are common throughout history.

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Roger E Edmondson's avatar

History does indeed repeat itself. Let's hope their incompetency leads to their failure.

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Lynne Freitag's avatar

I appreciate you citing your research. It is helpful to know where information comes from when dealing with other people who like to hear them selves speak. Watching this circus can only be bearable if we can focus on the facts that matter much like how we had to focus on the science that mattered during the pandemic. Thank you for staying focused.

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Jim Robillard's avatar

Hey Lynne, thanks for commenting. It seems like informed opinion is out of fashion with the MAGA crowd, so I'm not sure that the citations are convincing in the face of strongly held beliefs. But I'll keep writing. It makes me feel like I'm doing something, even if it's just yelling into the wind.

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