The thing with the memory objection is that when the apocalyptic scenario is averted, you get the same people who objected to the effort to avert it saying, "See? Nothing happened! You didn't need to do that!", conveniently ignoring that it was the effort that made it not happen. And your "basic human decency" sounds like a strawman to me; I'm not familiar with either party joking about gulags. Although given that not long ago Trump was suggesting Operation Wetback and the Japanese-American Internment were great ideas whose time has come again approaches it...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.