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  "Whenever one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first." - Sir Isaac Newton Politics is not immune to physics, as much as it pains me to admit as a former liberal arts major.  Specifically, politics is just as beholden to Newton's Third Law of Motion, as quoted above, as is any planetoid drifting through the zero-G void of space.   And this is why America is seeing a surge of renewed enthusiasm for both progressivism and socialism. The natural predator of fascism is socialism. They are the matter-antimatter dynamic of political extremes. One will always oppose the other, and when the two come into conflict, explosions can result, as seen in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. The same dynamic is now occurring in the United States of America, as the predatory Trump regime exhibits aspects of both predatory capitalism and fascism. As Americans face rising food prices, fuel costs, and utility rat...

  💢💢💢 This is your reminder that we are now 203 days into the Trump cover-up of his being in the Epstein files. 💢💢💢 To the seven brave souls still reading this blog—thank you. You already know I’m a PC gaming devotee, and not just for the pixelated explosions. Like a good book or film, games can be portals into history, ideology, and the uncomfortable truths we’d rather not face. While the sticks-in-the-mud who are the Baby Boomers find this a shocking idea, Gen X and beyond know this to be true; hence, it is often video game franchises that command the type of fanatical devotion that popular movies once did (whither thou goest, Hollywood?).  As I watch this once great nation slip into authoritarianism, it is no surprise that I have been playing a great deal of my two favorite Cold War gone hot wargames, WARNO and Regiments .  As a child of the Cold War, I've always been interested in this period of history, one that I suspect, due to the lack of a major East versu...