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Thank you Rex for yet another insightful column. The political situation in our country amounts to an ongoing nightmare. When we “wake up,” the nightmare does not go away. It only gets worse. I don’t know if you intended this but your column certainly raised my anxiety about our country. I would suggest that all good Americans should be anxious about the threat to our Democracy and should register their concern at the ballot box.

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I'm sorry to raise the anxiety level, Stephen, but mine is certainly up there. And if it compels us to encourage others to join in the fight against dangerous radicalism, that's good. (As long as we can sleep at night. If not, we probably need more exercise, or maybe a vacation!)

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Spot on as usual. You touch on one more critical issue facing democracy that may be worth considering as a topic for another article; that being the separation of church and state. Mike Johnson and his evangelical ilk do not blur the line. They neither think it exists, nor want it to exist. Personally, I prefer my elected leaders to use things like sound experiential judgement, logic, compassion, and science to guide them rather than relying on a personal directive from "their" God, which as you note, can never be challenged or fact-checked. Even though I was raised Presbyterian, I object to the thought that Christian morals and values should exclusively rule the land. The idea is an affront to all other religions within our borders and to one of the nations founding principals, freedom of religion.

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Well argued, Tom. Abraham Lincoln noted in his Second Inaugural Address that each side in the Civil War claimed God's support and prayed for deliverance -- which you would think might have convinced Americans that such assumption of Almighty blessing is a fool's argument.

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Powerful, clear, incisive.

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Thanks, Ned.

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I’m agree Rex. Such is the case now that everyone’s anxiety level should go up.

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