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Proud Liberal Dem

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8. As much as I don't want this to happen
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 01:35 PM
Dec 2016

there doesn't seem to be a way out of it, unfortunately. We can and should do everything we can legally to make him wish that he hadn't won, however. Maybe he will get sick of the job and give up in four years (if not earlier). If everything ends up being as bad as almost everybody believes it's going to be over the next four years, I can't see him winning re-election in 2020 to a decently qualified Democrat. But enough people are going to have to stop acting like politics is just a "hobby" like sports and crochet and start acting like it's a matter of life and death (because it is). When people don't vote, vote in Republicans for whatever reason, or simply refuse pay attention to politics at all and they turn around and look around at crumbling infrastructure and increasingly lower standard of living and start complaining how much their lives suck, do they ever wonder if maybe *MAYBE* it's because of what is going on in their local City-Council? Statehouses? Congress? WH? Who's in charge when things are going wrong?

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