<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:46 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>So… my feeling is that the heavy lifting in government should be done at the state level.</blockquote><div> </div><font size="4">But how could that ever come to be? A presidential or congressional candidate who says "I will do nothing to address the most important social issue of our age and I have no interest in the thing that makes you <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​the ​</div>angriest" will simply never get<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>elected.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ They'd rather vote for the first dimwit they find with ​loud voice who promises simple solutions to complex problems. </div></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Incidentally there is now about one chance in 4 that the revolver aimed at our heads will go off a week from tomorrow. </font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">  John K Clark</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font>.       <br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_8787278107902678256WordSection1"><div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>