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As a child of the sixties, it is so so so shocking to watch our country descend into a kakistocracy.

I was a high school student for one year in communist Romania, this soon after Watergate and Nixon's resignation. Our Romanian history texts recorded a distorted history. For example, that the US signed a peace treaty with Japan and then, after, dropped the bomb. I said that wasn't true. My classmates asked how I could know that? Maybe my government was lying. I said it was because we had newspapers, independent journalism. See, our President had to resign. And since then I have insouciantly relied on independent, inquisitive, bold journalism as a balance of power.

Go, Vanant, go!

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