In the past few days I've noticed some places around town that are boarded up. Not closed. These businesses, for the most part, are still operating. But there's a protective layer of lumber around the buildings.
This is election-related, of course. A huge number of places in New York and DC have similar precautions in place. Election-related violence is a bad sign all around, but there we are.
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tho i have only read excerpts, i believe there's no other book that managed to capture the last 4 years in u.s. politics, & how those years have been addressed by the major media outlets, better than matt taibbi's 'hate inc.': https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway
this 'fifty-fifty' paradigm the u.s. has supposedly been locked in for the last couple+ decades (resulting in alternating 8 years of tweedle dee / tweedle dum), has done nothing but benefit those in power at the expense of all the rest of us. donald trump, in all his glorious irrationality, actually managing to push his opposition into a similar state, revealing them all to be equally mad, has been both clarifying & sobering to witness. it needn't be mentioned that any 'precautions' being taken in metropolitan blue-state areas are very definitely not in fear of a biden win, & subsequent neo-nazi/neo-fascist rioting. to the extent that there's yet to've actually been any neo-nazi/neo-fascist rioting. anywhere...
&, meanwhile, the count continues (which, in itself, we consider a trump victory). god help us all...
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