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Dear Prof. McFaul:

In the book that is entitled "The Psychology of Totalitarianism, the statistician and clinical psychologist Mattis Desmet reports that that for a large group of the citizens of a given country to mistake a "complex" physical system for a "non-complex" physical system is a precursor to totalitarian rule over the people of this country, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole physical system and not of the separate parts of this system. Harris habitually makes this mistake but Trump does not make it. Thus, for avoidance of totalitarian rule over ourselves, we Americans should vote for Trump and not for Harris.

Cordially,

Terry Oldberg

Engineer/Scisntist/Public Policy Researcher/Los Altos Hills, California

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