I'm just thinking out loud here, so bear with me:

I keep in the back of my mind the idea that Lepus and GUEST may just be the very bleeding tip of the next American revolution. I certainly hope so. The way things are going we need some sharp-tined pitchforking to turn over the huge mass of old waste matter that has accumulated in the political barnyard. The irrationality of our poitical machinery is legendary! And like many other self-satisfied old hippies, I have become more centrist, more gradual, and less shrill in my older years. But think back (for example) on the shrill rock throwing that unarmed students in huge numbers were engaging in in 1970.

Maybe we do not have what it takes to get this behemoth back on course without a civil war. I have no idea what kind of war that would be -- obviously nothing like any other.
Maybe it would be a revolution of words and nonviolent interventions. But like Kent State, not without martyrs.

But I doubt the vote is going to have a major impact.

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