America had a nice run.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I wanted to be wrong when I said we were over but we are.

[dalton99a]

2. The criminal regime will live on for a long time because they have cemented everything in place to punish dissent

[Irish_Dem]

3. 250 years was a good run. Nothing to be ashamed of.

We kept it together way longer than Ben Franklin thought we would.

[lame54]

4. Imagine if Ukraine said that

[SamuelTheThird]

11. True, but they didn't resort to protests and editorials

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. People still cooperate every single day.

The people and organizations with the most power will never have complete power, especially if more people wisely ignore the anxiety-inducing bullshit from the most influential.

[ALBliberal]

6. I am 64 the younger generation doesn't deserve it

Yeah yeah younger voters don’t vote blah blah

But not a one of us wished it on them

We aren’t those people

I myself blame the defunding of public education.

Gotta point to something don’t I?

[Initech]

7. We totally misunderestimated the youth vote.

Many of them actually wanted this because they were immersed in the MAGA dude bro podcast sphere. Many of them populated the online forums that made bullshit like Q Anon possible. I see kids in my area wearing MAGA merch and have MAGA stickers on their bikes and skateboards. It's insane.

This is fucking insanity.

[ALBliberal]

8. Kind of gets me back to my point of underfunding public education.

So many lack any critical thinking skills. Lack the ability to question “news sources”.

Ok I will throw in social media explosion since say? 2010? Affecting not only adolescents but young adults and grown-ass adults.

Rant over. Disappointment and sadness and helplessness continues.

[Initech]

9. Which that was caused by Limbaugh republicans.

So many of our problems in society can all be traced back to that sniveling piece of shit.

[ALBliberal]

10. Yep

[Wifes husband]

13. Started with Regan

[Maru Kitteh]

12. It really hurts.

[Coventina]

14. It was cool to be part of the Sesame Street generation.

Too bad it was all in our heads, and we were really living on top of a swamp of racist fascists.