After a night's sleep, a couple thoughts:
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There are two upsides to the Trump presidency. The first is that we now have a list of the worst people in the United States of America. His appointees without doubt were the most dangerous, repulsive group of individuals elevated to high positions I have ever seen. The second piece of good news is it United groups on the left Against this asshole, and the complacency which we had acquired over the last umpteen years is gone.
I have a story to relate from a couple days ago which was not germane to the election per se, so I waited to post it. One of my patients is a very significant African-American attorney here in Philadelphia, who has represented both civilly and criminally some of the biggest names in the city and the surround. I have known him for a long time and can state unequivocally he is one of those people who truly understands the human condition on all levels, and is a quietly brilliant man. He was in the other day, And as got ready to leave he turned to me and he said that for the first time in his life he understands how the Holocaust happened. That a populace can be hoodwinked into beliefs antithetical to normalcy by a dictator. It was quite a statement from a fairly remarkable man.
I cannot wait for the declaration of victory. I am amused That Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy, is going to be the place wherein we retake a semblance of sanity and try to rebuild America and it’s civilization.
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And it's fitting that a Delawarean helps us re-get there, seeing as we were the first state and all 
Democracy should be destined to save it for us 
Making America Care Again.
But I think we have people who can handle it
The loss of 'The Fairness Doctrine' in Media in 1987 was the first key blow that has crippled our Freedoms ever since.
Then Bill let The Telecommunications Act of 1996 go through and allowed the Media Monoplies to dominate.
AP News
Deregulation destroyed objective reporting
Kathleene Parker
April 14, 2019
https://apnews.com/article/f2021dc7425a4001b1f910a3bb075b87
• Ronald Reagan’s 1987 revocation of the Fairness Doctrine, which had banned bias and forbade news blackouts. One Southern TV station, for example, lost its license for refusing to report on the civil rights movement in a time when public protests to the FCC could cost broadcast licenses. The doctrine’s absence today means hot-button issues like immigration are reported only from ludicrously left-or-right emotional extremes absent context or middle-ground options. Worse are fabrications, such as media headlining our falling birthrate while blatantly ignoring astronomical 28 million to 30 million decadal population explosions, 82 percent immigration-driven, in ours, the third-most populated and highest — by a factor of three — per capita carbon nation. News once reported spontaneously — and honestly — based solely on its own merits is replaced by topics selectively reported to artificially create specific perceptions and a false national “reality.”
• President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act removing conflict-of-interest restrictions on all major-media ownership. Once, those who owned media could only own media. Now, those manufacturing weapons can own media, and — as I believe they have — use it to encourage war. National media, in 1996 owned by 52 entities, is now 90 percent owned by six near-monopolies, using TV, internet, major newspapers and movies to their own ends.
Are “leaders” so busy with partisan mudslinging — encouraged by media — they are unaware that media, more than any other force, is tearing the nation apart?
Or, is it that Big Media — a dangerous new version of Big Brother — is ensuring that the conversation about re-regulating media never happens?
well, then this needs to be re-enabled! not sure how it can be done with repuke senate majority 
34 seats up and 22 are Rethuglican.
If Moscow Mitch continues to Obstruct the will of The American People then there will be a Blue 'blood bath' in the Senate elections.
Before, under TFD, we had real discussions and compromise as far as what we saw on TV or heard on the Radio was concerned. It was not in any way marketed or pushed as 'bothsiderism'. Everyone knew that both sides would get to speak, but also knew when the media was simply allowing the minority their fair time on the air.
I submit 'bothsiderism' is a more recent phenomenon that has it's roots in Fox New's infamous 'Fair And Balanced' meme started in the mid 1990's, and the rise of the 'Shock TV' jock to drive ratings that CNN pioneered with the 'Crossfire' model. Jon Stewart effectively neutered the show, and for a short time the meme, when he debated Tucker Carlson in 2006.
"Willful blindness" can happen anywhere when the conditions are ripe.
We've seen it here in the US in the 21st Century, but luckily not all of us fell for it. Enough of us can see through the ruse. We must always remain vigilant and ready to defend the rights of all citizens, especially those who cannot defend themselves. If we don't, we could end up like Germany with Hitler and the Nazis.
comment at the end. Where our democracy started it will be restored again. How symbolic!
Our forefathers are watching.
