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But the road to that world is people just becoming disengaged and allowing their government to do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Government&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":574,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/574","url_meta":{"origin":565,"position":1},"title":"Trump May Be In The Mood To Compromise With Dems To Get A Healthcare Deal&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"April 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIf we don\u2019t get what we want, we will make a deal with the Democrats and we will have \u2014 in my opinion \u2014 not as good a form of healthcare, but we are going to have a very good form of healthcare and it will be a bipartisan form\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Government&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":202,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/202","url_meta":{"origin":565,"position":2},"title":"A Divided America&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"February 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"America is a divided nation. 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