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Georgia Patrick's avatar

It is a wake-up call with a single question: What is your backup plan? We are so reliant on things being the way they always were. Redundancy means having extra layers of protection so that if one system, tool, or resource fails, another is immediately available to take its place.

It’s about eliminating single points of failure and ensuring that no one mishap, accident, or oversight can completely derail you. All of our attention and resources are massively shifting to the backup and that will be mighty disruptive to the American economy when we stop "business as usual", stop spending, and that turns off the tap of tax flow cash into the U.S. Treasury.

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Susan OBrien's avatar

Spot on and timely, Russell. In the State of Texas, senators Cuuz and Cornyn are a problem without immediate solution. HOWEVER, representative Jasmine Crockett has a voice and is not a bit afraid to use it. In dire times, voices of articulate reason and justified resistance arise. I say support them.

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Susan OBrien's avatar

I will be guided by your suggestion. Thank you for it.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

Thanks, Susan. Jasmine Crockett is amazing. Also, Maxwell Frost (at 28. the youngest member of congress, and of course Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC).

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Susan OBrien's avatar

Thank you for another Hero in the Making reference, Russell. I definitely will take a look at Maxwell.

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Mike Goodenow Weber's avatar

I try to separate this into two categories. There are policy differences, but democracy at work. I'm against deporting millions of people who are here illegally, but 54% of our fellow Americans want mass deportations and they voted for it. So that's democracy at work, even though I don't like it. The other category involves attacks on the foundations of our democracy. Free speech, free press, free assembly, and a constitutional order based on the powers of the three branches of governments and honoring the outcomes of elections. I find these first 17 days confusing, as it involves computers and data systems and Elon's 19-year-old high school grads bossing around career civil servants. I'm still trying to get my head around it. But I plan to hit the streets and protest as soon as I'm sure the foundations of our democracy are under attack, and it appears that could be quite soon.

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

I'm seeing a coup in progress, and I'm glad protests are happening across the country. I'm hoping enough democratic leaders can get together to take action, before things get worse. I'm seeing our constitution being torn up, trampled, shredded, lit on fire.

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Mike Goodenow Weber's avatar

There are 25 major lawsuits underway, and our federal judges will be making decisions in all these cases.

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Mike Goodenow Weber's avatar

You’re ahead of where I am, but I deeply respect the historian Timothy Snyder and he is already calling it a coup, as well.

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