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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm surprised how hopeful today's events are making me feel...
...watching our politics is enough to make anyone a cynic. We have the utterly corrupt GOP, an increasingly useless courtier media class, and evidence every day of the depravity of all-too-great a chunk of the American people. But today...you know, I really think something *has* changed. Something good, that will survive the inevitable disappointments and failures of the real world and the responsibilities that come with managing it. I'm beginning to feel that the reactionaries can't win, not only in the long run but even in the not-so-long run. We saw America on the floor of Congress today, and the White Male Caucus can't keep it down.
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I'm surprised how hopeful today's events are making me feel... (Original Post)
First Speaker
Jan 2019
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Yes. It is a relief. I didn't need to watch the news on the tv so much today because
applegrove
Jan 2019
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applegrove
(118,022 posts)1. Yes. It is a relief. I didn't need to watch the news on the tv so much today because
most is well in hand all of a sudden. Or it feels like it.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)2. We turned a corner. Nancy is going to be handing America the goods.
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)3. I let my breath out
for the 1st time in over 2 years!
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)4. me,too. I feel better already