anchor.diff:  
   Imagine that.
   
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   Today I actually do live in one of those countries. I have socialized medicine, such as it is, and an unemployment system that is paying me to intern at a Finnish software consultancy, and to study the Finnish language.
   
  
positive.code: 
  And it's only gotten worse, as long as I have been alive. Reagan must be dancing in his grave.
  
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  I dreamed of living in one of those countries, even as a boy. I knew my place in the world, knew my government. Even then I had no hope. I watched my first election play out, a choice between a robot and an idiot, both of whom were taking the same amount of money from the same companies and rich benefactors. 
  
  
negative.code: 
  So we did. 
  
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  In my life time, there has never been a political party or leader or government in power which I can describe as properly left-wing.
  
  