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I could use this opportunity to make a long, impassioned argument in favor of fresh thinking over experience with worlds gone past. Or I could just laugh at the best summation of the perpetual argument between 'Crats and 'Cans in recent memory.
American Politics: a gigantic robot with a forward button, a back button, and a bunch of fly-wheels spinning hard as possible at each step. Please don't mash the back button; we've already backed ourselves into enough of a corner as it is.