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In reply to the discussion: Thank God Hillary Lost [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I haven't really studied the age demographics of this last disaster... er... I mean, election. But at the rate I see the senile red-hat wearing useful idiots watching Faux noise from their hospital beds is unprecedented.
I honestly thought the Rethugs had dug their own grave after Ronnie's relatively mild series of gaffes, and especially the "religious right" at the time that embarrassed themselves magnanimously. I believe that they (rethugs) got lucky with an economic boon, to follow that clown show with GHWB.
I still have chronic headaches from the number of facepalms unavoidable during GWB's term. And thought, surely, this time, the R's have learned their lessons well enough to prevent another polluting or economy-wrecking corporatist debacle.
Yet the newspeak channel keeps 40 percent of our citizens dazed and confused, and with the illusion of clarity and veracity. I still point to the RayGun year's repeal of the fairness doctrine as having potentially dug all our graves for us.
One can always hope. Meantime, since the hopey-changey thing has been replaced with the fatalist regressive long con, providing the Drumph doesn't get us nuked or the bell curve of climate change doesn't turn the entire Midwest into a dust bowl to make the previous one look like a minor disaster...
I pray to Allah, Zeus, any deity available that you're right.