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There’s no understanding as there’s nothing to understand, understanding has reached its limit, to understand can go no further than the squirrel scrambling up a tree until it reaches the very top. And then what? The squirrel must descend at some point to become a member of the Republican Party.

The Republican Party is rich in cartoon characters, slightly richer than Democrats, whose assets and creature comforts are in decline.

Lemurs, Republicans believe, lurking off the coast of Madagascar, are planning a mass-immigration movement that will allow the creatures to enter the United States illegally.

Many real-time solutions are offered by the bureaucratizing wing of the Republican Party; a White Paper is drafted, titled “Replacement Theory, A Grave Danger to America”; committee chairmen and chairwomen interview czars, crackpots, nuts, celebs, autocrats, regular everyday citizens who are sick and tired of being victimized for crimes they didn’t commit…

We need philosophers, not politicians. Philosophers are always in the business of descripton—description is Job 1—to place the language of description on the table for all to see, to ascertain whether or not the language that defines the situation at hand is true or is false, or a weird admixture that defies description.