Never forget

I'l never forget the minute I realized two-time Tony Kennedy was voting against Gore. I was driving to the grocery store in Dana Point, CA, with NPR on, and I'll never forget the feeling:

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

Trump's election was a terrible thing...but it's not something that should be compared to 9/11.

Only time 9/11 should be used in comparison to something is other terrorist attacks.

Although I agree that he shouldn't be compared to 9/11...Hitler yes.

sea to shining sea.

It will be less direct and harder to prove causality; but it will be tremendously higher, and the tide of human misery even larger. We wil never be the same -- that is is what ties the two events together.

Trump and the rising authoritarianism this pustule is a symptom of. I've been fortunate in my personal life, and that was by far the worst morning of my life.

But Orange Stalin is upfront about how much power he wants.

NYC-based media used 9/11 to do to the nation, after that morning, are parts of that disaster.

"America will never be the same again." People believed that, pushed at them all day long by media elites who intended to make sure the lifestyles they treasured in NYC actually remained just the same. And of course by right-wing media. This cynically inflated, and conservatizing, national anxiety enabled and was an excuse for long lists of abuses of power.