TEN REASONS THIS NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS GOING TO END: Saturday's Good News

[Poiuyt]

I'm putting in the bullet points below, but please read the article. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/22/1820743/-TEN-REASONS-THIS-NATIONAL-NIGHTMARE-IS-GOING-TO-END-Saturday-s-Good-News

1. Trump Is Losing His Hold On Power
2. Trump Is In Enormous Russia Related Trouble
3. Trump Is In Enormous Legal Trouble
4. Mulvany is Not Going to Save Trump
5. Trump Is Bringing Down The GOP
6. Democrats Are Poised For Power
7. The Echo Chamber is Turning On Trump
8. The Legal System Still Works
9. The Country Is Moving Left
10. Hope From Around The World

[Sherman A1]

1. We hope

Time will tell.

[Doreen]

2. 8 is the only one I will not hold my breath on.

I have been seriously doubting that since asswipe came down the escalator.

[paleotn]

5. Tricky Dick polled in the 30 to 40% range when he resigned.

There will always be dead enders. The question is, are there enough dead enders left to put establishment Rethugs in peril of being primaried? That is beginning to shift significantly. They certainly don't have to worry about the donor class anymore. That group has lost millions, are pissed as hell and want shitler gone.

[mucifer]

16. But, tricky dick wasn't crazy in public and he didn't crash the economy

two big things.

[Cosmocat]

9. Yeah

Things are still incredibly tenuous, and people are dismissing the processes that enabled 45 to ascend.

Republicans/conservatives arent going to just roll over to the evil liberals, and the country still will continue to indulge right wing fuck wittery.

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. I get it that Putin hates the USA...but,

Why do the Russian People hate the U.S.A. too? Where's the thanks for the crapola we've done for them in the past? Why no protests in Russia?

[pangaia]

8. Many Russians see the USA as the cause of many of the world's great ills.

While the whole history is terribly complicated, most of it over my head, I have every reason to believe they would be right.

All Russians I know, which is not many, are highly educated, often artistic types with a pretty informed world view.
Of course, they have their own blind spots from their perspective, as we do from ours.
My occasional conversations with them are always quite informative, to say the least.

[Honeycombe8]

10. What has America done for the average Russian?

Why would America do things for Russian citizens, or Russia do things for American citizens?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

18. Well...for starters...we freed most of Western Russia/Eastern Bloc after wall fell.

I'd be grateful for that, myself. I dunno. WW2 Lend-lease? Democracy?
Maybe it's the old..."What have you done for me lately?" bit?

[Honeycombe8]

19. The OP said that Russians should be "grateful" to us for all we have done for them.

We didn't "free" the Russians from anything. Go ask them.

As for "granting them their wish of democracy," we don't have that kind of power. Secondly, they don't have a real democracy.

[hibbing]

7. Wow, there's been a plethora of these stories

I keep posting basically the same thing. My prediction is he will serve his full term. His putrid party will do nothing beside a few members posting mildly critical tweets. However, they sure seem to be blabbermouths in private talks with journalists.

Peace

[H2O Man]

11. I definitely agree.

Recommended.

[liberal N proud]

12. The country and the are becoming ever more desperate

Something needs to change soon or we are in a very bad spot.

[CaptYossarian]

13. He wants $5 Billion to save him from the big bad brown people.

Why don't we build the wall around the fence at the White House, imprison him there for life for his crimes, and build a new home for the deserving, honorable future presidents? With his many social diseases he brought in, they'll have to replace the furniture and plumbing anyway. And the fence will cost much less than even $1 Billion too.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. America's left/right swing cycle is very destructive.

I feel many of your ten points are true short term, but I'm prone to be long-term negative because of human short-sightedness and complacency.

Unfortunately for us, Republican's cyclic "two Santa Clauses" tactic is still working for them in the long term. It does, however feel good that we're about to go into the "positive" side of that cycle.

Until the massive problem of global inequality is resolved, I fear the trends toward nationalism, protectionism, racism and worsening poverty and deadly conflict will continue.

I don't see much now to stop the process unless we experience a global cataclysmic event such as another Great Depression. Climate change will eventually do the job, although millions will die in the process. The world is very poorly prepared for it and still in denial, much like Indonesia has been for tsunami.

However, let's hope 2019 proves to make all of your points hold true for the sake of world-wide emotional relief.....

[Cha]

15. Yeah, look at that Democratic Blue Wave!

[wryter2000]

17. #5 is my favorite

Until they all lose power, there will be another Bush and another Trump