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In reply to the discussion: Trump has changed my world view in a profound way. [View all]0rganism
(23,944 posts)61. he showed me that our electorate is more fickle and our institutions more fragile than i'd believed
we didn't make nearly as much progress in the 20th century as i previously thought, and a lot of what we did accomplish appears easily unraveled. our safety is nothing more than a reassuring fiction, our economy a gigantic Ponzi scheme, our infrastructure a convenient Potemkin village. we will not fix this damage, the system itself is locked into a cycle of self-cannibalism with no remaining mechanism for self-correction or recovery. the forms may persist for another 30 years or so, but meaning and purpose have been permanently compromised. we don't get to just walk away from this one.
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My history professor remarked its actually frightening to think that anyone could become president.
olegramps
Sep 2017
#31
Thank you for your astute summary! I am concerned about the rise of an authoritarian
RKP5637
Sep 2017
#57
I thought the Electoral College was supposed to be a brake on electing a lunatic.
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
#5
That makes a lot of sense, but I learned in the Civil War, if you can't avoid fighting your brother
Not Ruth
Sep 2017
#8
But what we have to learn is that this is not what it means at all to be an American.
Squinch
Sep 2017
#48
me too, I'm a bit jealous of countries with mentally stable Leaders & now understand how Ivan the
Sunlei
Sep 2017
#28
If all it takes is the election of an odious pig like Donald Trump to break a person's attachment
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#39
Your thinly veiled attack on Dianne Feinstein (repeated for the umteenth time) is based...
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#46
How did my heartfelt thread turn into a discussion of the senior senator from the Golden State?
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
#47
Due to the (how many is is now?) threads you've started in the past few days...
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#49
It is really sad you are using this forum to besmirch my reputation.
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
#58
Personally, I don't consider "Recs" when approaching issues of morality...
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#68
Nine percent of Americans say neo-Nazi or white supremacist views are acceptable: survey
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
#84