2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Things are coming to a head. I believe vast changes are coming, whether we want them to, or not: [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)the one who has been bullied by the Republicans for the past 7 years. In the last 2 or
3 months, MAYBE he is beginning to wake up. Just MAYBE.
Congress: Never in the history of our nation has our Congress had a lower approval
rating from the people. The last I heard, it was in the single digit range -- something
like 9%. It's disgusting! I wonder if a reason could be that too many of them have
sold out, and are working more for Special Interests than for their constituents. Does
this miserable rating bother them at all? Not likely, politicians are noted for having
very thick skins. They simply don't listen to the people. They prefer listening to the
Special Interests. Corporations, in short. (There's that word "corporation" again).
The American people are more than fed up to the gills. You may call it whatever you
wish to, but I feel we are right now already at the beginning of a dramatic change.
Where it will lead to, and how it will end, I have no idea.