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A Few MAGA Apples Spoil The Whole Bunch

With the House in disarray, the future of America’s shaky political system is uncertain.

Joe Duncan
5 min readOct 11, 2023

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Republican Collage #2 by Joe Duncan | Source photos by Gage Skidmore (DeSantis, Greene, Gaetz, Jordan, Trump) licensed under Creative Commons 2.0

If we were to judge a political system by its responsibility, America is struggling right now. That’s putting it lightly.

When I use the word “responsibility,” I mean it in its proper sense — the ability to respond to various situations as they arise. To be responsible is to be capable of analyzing and reacting to everything from unpleasant surprises to full-blown crises in an intelligent, level-headed manner.

Many Americans, including some Representatives elected to national office, seem to have forgotten what it means to be responsible.

Now, as Israel declares war on Hamas after a horrific barrage of attacks carried out by Hamas in Israeli territory, America is fumbling around without an official Speaker in one of our chambers of government.

President Biden announced the United States’ unambiguous support for Israel in the wake of the horrific terrorist attacks across the country. Teenagers, children, and even babies were slaughtered or taken hostage by Hamas. An entire rave party was overtaken by militants as defenseless civilians helplessly scattered to avoid being…

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Joe Duncan

I’ve worked in politics for thirteen years and counting. Editor for Sexography: Medium.com/Sexography | The Science of Sex: http://thescienceofsex.substack.com