MADDOW: Is firing senior State Dept staff, 37% budget cut & Tillerson appt part of Russian plan?

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24. Look

We are on the same team, so I am not trying to bash or beat up on you.

1) I am sharing my observations and sense of things - it has absolutely ZERO effect on the outcome.
2) That said, I saw this coming my entire adult life, starting in the early 90s with the absurd hatred and off the hook resistance to Bill Clinton.
3) Since that time we have seen STEADY slippage in terms of just how mean spirited the right is, the apathy of the "middle" and how the media went from subtly backing the republican's plays back then to being overtly in the bag for them now. We also have seen them make increasing gains in gaming the system through voting limitations and gerrymandering.
4) During this time, the last 25 years, they have increasingly gained power at the federal and state level. The only break in that occured in 06 and 08 when they were THAT bad with W and we had the most capable and talented politician of our lives as our standard bearer. Other than that, this country, despite them being more horrible as time went on, give the republicans more and more power.

What I see out there - our 1/3, their 1/3 and a "middle" 1/3 that breaks right far more than left because they buy "they are both same" and lean toward the party that screams how horrible government is.

Logistically - they have such overwhelming electoral edges with gerrymandering and such strong pull by their negative messaging that congress could care less what people think now. We have NEVER had a congress this uniformly dedicated to its party, and we have NEVER had a POTUS that is so actively deconstructing the federal government.

Again - I saw this coming LONG ago, and frankly, I put big chunk of my prime earning years trying to get into the game (being active with the party and running for office), even today serve one very small position and for good measure put in for another small local elected position I am likely to get.

But, my experience trying to get into the game at a higher level left me with the with the knowledge that people in this country are lost, you can't even lead them to the water much less make them drink it. And, I see it around me clear as day.

I know MANY of US who are pissed as hell, but that is sadly in equal number to those who gleefully celebrate in the hate filled things going on in DC right now, and that does not count the people who just have tuned it all out.

Final note - As a member here since the early/mid 2000s, I have countless posts over the years trying to balance out the MANY breathless posts about the impending doom of the republican party. I have noted, correctly, as it turns out, they were far from being doomed and in fact were moving toward more power.

I like Reich and I am happy to see him taking a lead like he has. I certainly don't WANT to see this turn out the way I want to see it. But, we face L O N G odds even stemming what is happening, much less turning it around.