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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThoughts on surviving four years of pure evil
Some knew on election night how bad it could get. At least they thought they knew. Most had no idea. A monster had inexorably come to power. And the nightmare began.
In reality, the Republican Party has been a nightmare ever since Saint Ronald Reagans reign. Reagan was an amiable imbecile who sold snake oil labeled Trickle down economics. Most had no idea that it meant, Goodies for the rich and fuck everyone else, but many bought into it. Especially when the white racist prerogative Welfare Queen was added to the mix.
Four decades later, the disguise was stripped away. It turned out that far too many Americans were comfortable with bigotry, hatred and fascism. And some of them saw it as their dream come true.
Theres no need to enumerate the crimes against humanity committed during the reign of the beast and his enablers. Anyone reading this remembers how every day of the last four years brought a new and more outrageous act of depravity. And in the final year, nature added its own contribution to human misery with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Now, the intense hard work of many dedicated individuals transferred all the reins of power to sane people. But the head has not been cut off the snake. The cultists are still lurking and waiting. And many of them hold high seats in our government. The danger has not passed.
An empathetic, decent, competent person is now in charge, along with a political party that actually believes in the inalienable rights of every human being. This week, they achieved something that seemed impossible a short while ago. They enacted a law to help everyone have food, a roof over their heads, protection for their children, jobs, and so, so much more. And they also restored that incredible something that every human being needs. Hope.
Over half a million people died due to leaders who were incompetent and indifferent. The rest of us survived four years of pure evil. But those who thrive on that evil are still hard at work to steal back the reins of power. If they succeed, they will bring into being a world of horrors that decent humans fear and despise. And the only thing that stands in their way is us.
Everyone has heard the words, The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Yes, the word women must be added.) The truth of those words should be evident to all. Now is the time for everyone to do anything they possibly can do to ensure that sanity, progress and basic humanity triumphs over those who would enslave us in their crazed alternate universe.
If youve spent your entire life hoping/wishing/longing for sanity and decency to prevail on this planet, now is the time to act in any way you possibly can. All thats at stake is the future of humanity.
Cha
(297,196 posts)I was in extreme shock.. BUT HELL'S FIRE.. Not that BAD!
Thanks for your excellent thoughts on this, Cyrano. May we keep Getting Stronger & Don't BLOW THIS!
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)I would hate to see side by side photos of myself from 2016 and 2020. We've all taken a physical and mental toll from the constant firehose of evil from the abuser Trump. And those of us who had previously been victims of a narcissist or other emotional abuser have lived with a special hell each day, triggered.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,600 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)We're literally the only thing standing between the next evil entity prevailing or failing.
We have to persist like never before.
Upthevibe
(8,044 posts)Thank you for this well-thought out post.
Is it okay with you if I send this to some friends in an email? I'll be sure to say I read it on DU (in other words, I wouldn't think of taking credit for your perfected stated assessment)....
Cyrano
(15,035 posts)Always glad to share and always feel I can't find the right words to explain what happened to us in this era.
Where are those superheroes when we need them?
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)I figured there'd be more than half a million dead.
I also figured it would happen by means of an elective war.
The thing is, sometimes the blowback from presidential decisions/indecision/distractions takes a while to shake out, so we may very well see something like a terrorist attack that kills more Americans because of some things Trump did, or didn't do.
Cyrano
(15,035 posts)That's what the beast of Mar-a-Lago, his street thugs, and his allies in congress seem to want. And they are all totally insane.
This time around, there would be no geographic boundaries. It would be neighbor against neighbor and it doesn't get more horrific than that. And it would destroy America. But the Trump cult is too deranged to grasp that reality.
rampartc
(5,407 posts)except this time they win.
a "second civil war" is more likely to to resemble yugoslavia in the 1990s, or the series of cuban revolutions than anything in american history.
Irish_Dem
(47,036 posts)Trump's 4 year reign of terror was like going through the looking glass to insanity.
Now we are back and looking at a wonderful new reality.
Feels like whiplash and too good to be true.
Will take me some time to believe it is real.