Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

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    Only significant pain will transform the US unfortunately. And it’ll either be economic or combative. Most MAGA voters are gone, but the “nothing will change” non-voters can be woken up from the delusion that nothing matters and helped to recognize that voting at its most basic is harm reduction.

    As a border state that sees a bunch of Canadian tourists and shoppers it’ll suck, but the only way out is through.

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        I’m incredibly sad about it too, it consumes a non-inconsequential amount of my family. But a large faction of the US have been trained since the civil rights era that it’s good to suffer hurt yourself as long as you are hurting the undesirables more.

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        Are you aware what a massive undertaking it is to deprogram people who are brainwashed in a cult?
        It’s extremely hard, takes a long time, and requires the influence from the cult is cut completely.

        So yes the MAGA cult is basically a lost cause. Unless USA decides to shut down FOX and CNN and the likes.

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          We needed to deprogram the south when they lost the war, Sherman gave it a start, but then we failed when we showed them mercy.

          Now they’ve finally won.