"Keep Austin Weird." That's the mantra of this city. I can't help but think of how that applies to the country as a whole. We live in weird times, to say the least. Our current president is using a real issue in the black lives matter/police brutality struggle to further an anti gun platform that contradicts the manifestation of the founding principles of this country. Meanwhile our president nominees on both sides of the aisle offer a caricature of what a president could be both to us domestically and to the world at large. We're stuck as a country between the rock of a presumptive felon and a hard place of a bigoted narcissist. What are we to do? Do we cast our lot with the one who offers a better diplomatic façade (also, hello Benghazi) or do we trust in a candidate who feeds on American unrest with a show of devil-may-care impetuousness. Either way poses a moral issue, no matter what you try to convince yourself with the lesser of two evils approach. I ...
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