I don't think it's "do more puzzles"- I've done almost 1500 puzzles. There's some gestalt where stringing moves can be seen.

I don't even mean blunders- just positions too subtle for me to see. Continually.

Shocked, shocked, I tell you.

I feel crankier and crankier. No party at this point is posing a plan to meaningfully help with the issues I see at any level.

Maybe it's too much enterprise work on my end- too many stakeholders means I see complexity in everything and incrementalism as the rubric.

Dreher was perhaps the foremost trad type writer a decade ago. Its interesting and unsettling to see how little he understood the movement he helped spawn and shape.

I'm actually getting worried about this. Because I'm pretty sure this is how the reactionary brain worms come in.

I'm almost 42.

....how far away are the brain worms?

God is very picky.

And this is a hardship *no one volunteered to take on*. People aren't making sacrifices, they're *being* sacrificed. And ending that hardship, separate from any other conditions or caveats, is itself a moral good.

Almost all anti-aipac discourse is antisemitic.

No, I don't think so. If the Dems are holding the government shut and clearly doing so, over a Dem political point, there's no reason to not assign blame to Dems.

We can argue the merits of the point du jour, but who is doing it is clear.

Same. Well. A flicker of news in the twilight.

If the Dems shut the government for 13 months, it gives a reasonable amount of just reasoning:"vote gop- we will make the gov work again".

That's a surprise. I thought they'd bite on it hard.