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Michael Tracey
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Yes, I can name all 24 Democratic presidential candidates in alphabetical order. I long ago accepted that I am a very strange and unenviable person
Bennet
Biden
Booker
Bullock
Buttigieg
Castro
De Blasio
Delaney
Gabbard
Gillibrand
Gravel
Harris
Hickenlooper
Inslee
Klobuchar
Messam
Moulton
O'Rourke
Ryan
Sanders
Swalwell
Warren
Williamson
Yang

Shame on me. Have a nice day, I'm going on a long, sad walk
The saddest thing is, I could probably do this for every presidential cycle, both Dem and GOP, going back to at least 1996
2016:

GOP

Bush
Carson
Christie
Cruz
Fiorina
Gilmore
Graham
Huckabeee
Jindal
Kasich
Pataki
Paul
Perry
Rubio
Santorum
Trump
Walker

Dem

Chafee
Clinton
Lessig
O’Malley
Sanders
Webb

Ok, I’ll stop. I’m supposed to be walking
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Michael Tracey
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Every time I say this, "both sides" freak out but it doesn't make it any less true: Liberals and leftists who fixate endlessly on an exaggerated threat of "Nazis" are the mirror image of right-wingers who fixate endlessly on the exaggerated threat of "Radical Islamic Terror"
Yeah, I'm aware that one person died in Charlottesville in August 2017. Two months later, eight people died in Manhattan as a result of a "radical Islamic terror" attack. Inflating the threat posed by EITHER phenomenon because it flatters your sense of moral grandiosity is inane
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Regularizing my sleep habits has made all the difference in the world for me. When my sleep habits become irregular, it's terrible. No surprise that disrupted or inconsistent sleep patterns highly correlate with many psychological and cognitive problems
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Maybe eventually the "left" media will realize that their hyper-focus on a nonexistent "Nazi" threat actually encouraged a conservative tendency in the electorate, because Dems now want the "safest" candidate who can defeat Nazi-enabling Trump, and into that void steps Joe Biden
That's why Biden keeps talking about Charlottesville, both in his launch video and subsequently. It creates a convenient dichotomy: Nazis vs. everyone else. If there are Nazis to defeat, intra-party disputes don't matter -- all good and moral people must unite against the Nazis
So, good job everyone who radically inflated the significance of that one-off event in August 2017, because it's influencing the conditions by which Biden can feasibly present himself as a desirable alternative, and cast internal Democratic Party debates as counter-productive
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