Dale C -- at least as to me, that opening statement is nothing more or other than some dissociated imagining of yours -- though your "We need to win by assimilation" does rather nicely match up with the increasingly overt Borg hive-mind mentality of Sanders and his supporters
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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