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Cheezoholic

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29. Probably poor wording on my part. Yes we have a lot to fix. But I don't believe we need to tear it all down and rebuild
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 11:43 AM
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It doesn't take a lot to take a Democracy down from the inside. Like cracks in your wall that let little ants in, if you dont address them youre going to have more ants. Seal up the cracks the walls still in good shape. Ignore those cracks and your going to get more ants to the point the ants move in. I wouldn't tear down the entire wall of my house because ants were getting in. Properly addressing those cracks, the integrity of the wall still stands.
Basically what I meant. I don't think the system is so far gone we have to tear it down and rebuild it. But we do have to address those things that let this happen much better than we have in the past. We don't have to destroy it to fix it. Democracies are flawed as the people running them. It's the nature of them. Thats what makes them easy targets. I don't want to tear the country down because weve found (or they have found) the flaws in our current system and exploited them. Thats exactly what they want to do. Fill the cracks, the structure is fine

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Probably poor wording on my part. Yes we have a lot to fix. But I don't believe we need to tear it all down and rebuild Cheezoholic Saturday #29
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