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brush

(61,033 posts)
10. We all wish Gore hadn't conceded but back then there was still the concept...
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 07:13 PM
Nov 2020

of "for the good of the country" that prevailed then and all the pressure was on him—I mean was he going to buck the Supreme Court and all the media?

The repugs have long since destroyed that sense of duty to the country, and trump has done the rest to our institutions, with the others just being silent ot vocal and active sycophants.

The pendulum is swinging back. A malevolent, evil force like trump is against nature and nature always eventually prevails and corrects itself.

Walleye

(44,055 posts)
6. My mom would say, it's an ill wind that blows no good.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 07:06 PM
Nov 2020

I don’t think anything like that is going to happen this time. But that election just shows you that nothing is certain.

mopinko

(73,420 posts)
15. and the emails. omg.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 07:48 PM
Nov 2020

ya know, i have done a lot of event organizing. and going from the flood of last minute emails to the silence of the next day is a sad thing.
but the day after an election, and an empty email box? nope.

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