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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jon writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">\u201c<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#272727">A rhetoric which can be summarized as:&nbsp;<i>failure legitimizes institutions</i>.\u201d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#272727">\u201cWe continue to form rhetoric about the impossibility of doing otherwise,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#272727">rather than calling these institutions out for what they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#272727">are, namely failing to adequately serve their functions.\u201d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#272727">And one does what when the institution is both major political parties in the U.S. or the U.S. government itself? &nbsp;One can choose to not shop at Target, or similar
 organizations that are careless about security.&nbsp; But the other institutions might be disbanded as well.&nbsp; We simply recognize there can be no more perfect union, and the experiment has failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Garamond&quot;,serif;color:#272727">Marcus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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