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Arguably we're now seeing the political system controlled by geriatrics that grew up in the leaded fuel era.


In the pre leaded gas era, there were cane beatings on the floor of Congress!


No, we see the consequences that it causes in young people: The loss of sense of priority, the loss of capacity for independent discovery and the judment of reasonableness, the disruption of normal thinking (leading to making things up, to outright paranoia and psychosis).




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