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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur nightmare has come true
1. A madman in the Oval Office
2. A Senate and House run by sewer scrapings named McConnell and Ryan.
3. And now, a Supreme Court owned by ideological fanatics.
Even if we get control of the House in this election, we have a daunting path ahead of us. Republicans have achieved the goal they've been pursuing for decades. They "own" the entire government, and can do whatever they want to do.
Consider today the beginning. The start of the resistance. Consider it Day number "1" of a "war" to return America to democracy. Consider it a day on which we must begin to recapture what has been stolen from us.
They were patient. They built their movement of hatred and pure evil from the local level, right on up to the top. They cheated along the way with everything from gerrymandering, to all the "Jim Crow" tactics of the 20th Century, to new bullshit ID "laws," to closing polling places, to misinforming people as to voting dates and locations, and so, so much more. They will do whatever it takes.
Understand this. The Republican Party is a minority criminal enterprise that has stolen America from the majority of us. And it's up to us to take it back from them.
So if you feel like curling up into a ball and wallowing in self-pity, stop it. We cannot let this stand. Take a day off. Take a deep breath. And then get back into the fight. Martin Luther King said "The arc of history bends towards justice." I believe that. At this moment, it seems that evil has triumphed. And it has. -- For the moment.
But as Brett Kavanaugh said, "What goes around, comes around." Some day in the future, when that wheel turns, he will rue the reality of his words.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)in WISCONSIN...welcome to hell.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Maybe the aloof Americans will finally wake up, the ones that think everyone else is doing something for them. Votes count and elections have consequences. Hopefully this November will start to turn this around.
Cyrano
(15,057 posts)But in this latest battle, no shots will be fired. Today's "bullets" are votes.
And, along with you, RKP5637, I hope that the upcoming election will start to turn things around.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)Don't be distracted or deterred. Democrats MUST regain the majority in Congress.
This is our last chance.
Cyrano
(15,057 posts)If we don't win this time around, we are in a free-fall towards permanent rule by an oligarchy assisted by the ignorant.
This is the ultimate price we're paying for refusing to invest in universal education.