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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you think it was hard to keep a Democracy...
Wait until Trump & Co. find out how hard it will be to keep a dictatorship in America!
We ain't the Chinese, or the Russians - who've really never known democracy or freedom!!
Americans have never known anything else.
Trump has alienated all the intelligence agencies, screamed at and humiliated the military brass...
He's got McConnell, Barr, Pompeo, Graham, Stephen Miller, Devin Nunez, Gym Jordan...Sean Hannity, Donald Jr....
It ain't gonna be enough.
And it ain't gonna last very long.
elleng
(130,895 posts)surprisingly.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)and many independents like nothing we've seen in decades. So now let's just hope the candidates' surrogates and supporters can get their shit together and stop arguing about who gets to drive the fire truck while the house is burning down.
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)of blowing up in tRump's face, let that happen in this instance.
You know if this happens in the US, no one is safe, he can round up anyone who disses him.
You can't yell out "I have rights", no you don't.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)The guy is a loser. Incredible the way the GOP lines up behind this imbecile!
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)"Stop arguing about who gets to drive the fire truck while the house is burning down."
Indeed.
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)on this.
even the 2A crazees would wake up and realize their rights went down the drain.
renate
(13,776 posts)I just feel so f-ing helpless and sad right now.
Thank you so much!
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)But he may come to wish he never took power.
At one time, Mussolini was riding high, too.
Ultimately, it did not turn out well for him.
yonder
(9,664 posts)+/-75% of Americans want to see witness testimony. If tRump starts blabbing about being "exonerated" on Sunday at the Superbowl, that's 75% of a whole lot of people watching that game who are going to be asking questions about just what the hell happened. That national stage works both ways. tRumps ridden this horse hard and he put it away wet for maybe the last time.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)AW YISS!!!!
Thank you! I needed to hear that! You're right!
And since it'll be on during the Super Bowl, when people are getting together, it just takes one person in a group to say "hey, wait a sec...." out loud for the others to at least consider it.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)One of the duties of the officials of Trumpistan might be to explain to African Americans, er, African Trumpistanians, that they are going to go back to the bonds of slavery - along with other people of color.
Good luck with making that happen.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Talitha
(6,584 posts)Thank you for posting such uplifting thoughts!
The 'America' these rich, old pasty-faced white men want back will NEVER return. It's gone, and it's scaring the crap out of them. They seem to forget that this country belongs to our Youth - of every race, of every creed, of every economic class, and of every sexual preference.
These old men seem to have forgotten that many who were children in 2016 are now Voters in 2020. They saw classmates gunned down, and are experiencing climate change. So get ready to step aside old white men, because thankfully, your time is limited.
deaniac21
(6,747 posts)The enemy of everyone else in the world
Talitha
(6,584 posts)BTW just for the record, I'm a 'mature' (old? ) white woman... just wanted to make that clear.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Mitch McConnell is an OLD man physically - who doesn't appear to have ever exercised.
Trump, Barr...these guys are unhealthy creatures who may well have strokes when things really start to heat up!
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)These scoundrels will ultimately be defeated. And whenever the Trumplodytes do figure out how much they've been used and manipulated, that angry is going to grab ahold of Sean Hannity and tear him from limb to limb.
It won't be pretty.
crickets
(25,969 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)cared about America, Trump would have never gotten this far. Bill Barr would have already been locked up or killed by the CIA/DoJ. What you fail to realize is most people in the US government are corrupt and authoritarian. They are not going to save this country from tyrants.