Their baseline position, and McCains lifetime-long perspective, has been one of fear sublimated into violence, a dog-eat-dog world in which force is the only true rule of the day and the only law ultimately worth respecting. They live in a word dedicated to the discovery of and the manufacture of threats, collisions, and violent contests.

It is sad that this is a wavelength to which so many, hypnotized and shocked into resonance, respond.

The worst part is that it is self-fulfilling. Sarah will find her war.

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