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 I don't blame #JD or for that matter #LizWa  - If I was in their shoes I would be screaming alarms like a fire truck   - for they know #bitcoin fixes it .. 

On the contrary, I sympathize their situation and don't envy their job at all  - they are tasked to Anti-OrangePill  (AOP) law-makers .. 

For one AOP-ing  is lot harder that OP-ing ;  and particularly to law-makers because their training is to listen to their constituents - not to JD or LizWa .. So how do you make them hear !  First frustration ...

Second and the bigger problem - when you AOP a lawmaker - they understand that they been coerced into a scheme to debase and leverage their constituents savings  ...and they go - wait what ?  - most of them turn believers because being good is good for holding a public office ! For the few who don't - there is democracy :-)