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What shall we take seriously, Ben? What shall we ignore?

I mean obviously we need to take everything seriously. Right? With our unlimited bandwidth. With our bottomless wells of outrage. With our vast reserves of giveafuckitude. So we can care about the disenfranchisement of black voters, the flow of soft money into reactionary campaigns, the closed ballot apportionment of districts and the crazy fundies that "wanted to build bombs" all with the appropriate amount of concern, right?

OR MAYBE YOU GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE WRONG THINGS

Once more, with feeling: fundies have wanted to overthrow the government since we had a government. They've never even gotten close. The fundies I worry about?

If I have to choose between caring about the guys with "50 glass bottles" or the guys with 50 staffers? I'm going with the staffers.

And you should too.

And you know it.