IRRITATION IS NOT ENOUGH….Kieran Healy on the human condition:

People can stay irritated their whole lives, in my experience, and not change anything much about their situation.

No, he isn’t talking about the problems that Democrats have getting their message across to the oppressed proletariat, but he might as well be.

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