The most frustrating thing for me during the 2016 campaign was clearly seeing who he was and that he would trash the Republic for his personal vindictiveness while so many others didn't or dismissed the danger he represented. Now that he's occupying the White House, we're all going to deal with the massive fallout that could undermine the very existence of the country.
They're still dismissing it, people aren't taking the threat seriously enough because they want to believe this can all be ended with a single trip to the polls in November. I'm not sure they're right about that unfortunately. All I can gather is that what we're seeing is just how these things work, people remain in denial of the authoritarian takeover up to the moment it becomes too late to stop it.
Now this is obviously a massive, massive problem that is way bigger than any of us, but it's hard for me to see how this doesn't get worse before (and if) it gets better. There's always the chance that Trump could croak, that might get us out of this as well but it's a crapshoot. I'm mostly afraid that the right-wing is not going to give up power peacefully regardless. I'm not sure how we deal with that problem, but that's what I see happening.
I'm usually able to summon some optimism or at least achieve a degree of comfort with a zone of uncertainty. But this week I'm all tapped out. I'm having a lot of trouble seeing how we escape this catastrophe, which is only partly -- and not even mainly! -- about Trump. It's about the GOP and their utter contempt for democracy. When one of the two major parties defects this dramatically, even proudly, from liberal democracy, it's extraordinarily difficult to save the system.
We do and we must not lose hope ~ that's actually the only way that they win. Theirs is a dying demographic and that's why McConnell is so focused on getting young judges 'cause he recognizes that the court system will be the R's only solace within a generation. This was a tough week, there will be more tough weeks ahead, but we must lift one another up and continue to fight. I believe Schiff when he says "right still matters."
The most frustrating thing for me during the 2016 campaign was clearly seeing who he was and that he would trash the Republic for his personal vindictiveness while so many others didn't or dismissed the danger he represented. Now that he's occupying the White House, we're all going to deal with the massive fallout that could undermine the very existence of the country.
They're still dismissing it, people aren't taking the threat seriously enough because they want to believe this can all be ended with a single trip to the polls in November. I'm not sure they're right about that unfortunately. All I can gather is that what we're seeing is just how these things work, people remain in denial of the authoritarian takeover up to the moment it becomes too late to stop it.
Now this is obviously a massive, massive problem that is way bigger than any of us, but it's hard for me to see how this doesn't get worse before (and if) it gets better. There's always the chance that Trump could croak, that might get us out of this as well but it's a crapshoot. I'm mostly afraid that the right-wing is not going to give up power peacefully regardless. I'm not sure how we deal with that problem, but that's what I see happening.
I'm usually able to summon some optimism or at least achieve a degree of comfort with a zone of uncertainty. But this week I'm all tapped out. I'm having a lot of trouble seeing how we escape this catastrophe, which is only partly -- and not even mainly! -- about Trump. It's about the GOP and their utter contempt for democracy. When one of the two major parties defects this dramatically, even proudly, from liberal democracy, it's extraordinarily difficult to save the system.
You kind of end up in a situation where you fight them for power or surrender it to them, no?
That's exactly right. The question is whether we still have the chance to wrest power back from them.
We do and we must not lose hope ~ that's actually the only way that they win. Theirs is a dying demographic and that's why McConnell is so focused on getting young judges 'cause he recognizes that the court system will be the R's only solace within a generation. This was a tough week, there will be more tough weeks ahead, but we must lift one another up and continue to fight. I believe Schiff when he says "right still matters."