The next 30 days looks more and more ominous. The little snippets of Trump rallies and his stump speech seem to be close to incitement of violence. Ginning up the crowd and being more onerous is a strategy. They want to turn enough voters off people do not vote. That strategy is another tactic to drive down the vote.

The reaction of the crowd to Trump's diatribes is deranged. The code talk is that Hillary and the Democrats will destroy you and your family. Go get them.

A very BIG mistake.

It will be all "fun and games" for them until the black helicopters show up.

...perhaps when Trump's insane techniques crash and burn and he goes down in electoral flames, the Republican voters (if there are any left) will gravitate towards the most stable, most polite candidate available come the next election cycle? Surely no one wants a repeat of this mess.

No longer a heated debate based on different beliefs or ideas.

I live in Massachusetts, which is one of the more blue states
in the country. I see a smattering of Trump signs and bumper
stickers, but rarely a Clinton sign or sticker. I do not have
either myself, as I usually don't bother with them. But, I was
thinking to myself that these people with the Trump signs and
stickers must truly believe he is a better candidate and a better
PERSON than Hillary Clinton. Therefore, they must be so irrational
and so full of rage that I wouldn't want to invite the briefest of
interaction or political "conversation" with such a person.

I suspect this is the reason why we don't see many Clinton signs:

If I have to convince you that Clinton is vastly superior to Trump
in every measure, then you are beyond reason or redemption.

The lines of the fracture may shift a bit from time to time, but it has been so since the country was founded and before. This is hardly anything new. The only real changes are the technology that delivers us the information on the various forms of the fracture to our homes, cell phones and computers.

Why should people on the Left be afraid of our agenda succeeding?

If the alt-right doesn't like it, they can get out.

They don't own this country.

So we'll have a lot of deranged and bitter Trump supporters with guns. What could possibly go wrong?

I feel that Reagan started the slide into madness with his loony economic policies.
Add to that Limbaugh and Murdoch, who blamed and vilified liberalism, and taught those who lack critical skills to vote against their own interest and boom...here we are.

the Fairness Doctrine was scuttled? That was the start of RW hate radio. 30 some years of that shit has accomplished what it set out to do, push conservative "values." I, myself, find those people, Limbaugh, Hewitt, etc, etc to be repugnant and repulsive!

the bare bones and rebuild it correctly, with elements you know are proven and that will work for the long term. Most problems in any system, whether it's machinery, a household or in business and government are caused by shoddy workmanship, too many 'cooks in the kitchen', each with a different idea on how something should work, and by using cheap materials.

The US political system is broken. There are so, so many ways it can be improved, but it has to come from a small, well advised consensus, which means, again, changing something dramatically.

Frankly, the system is far too large, bloated and cumbersome, and the first thing that needs to be dramatically overhauled is the election system and the Constitution.

Good luck. Me and Obama? We could fix it and create something wonderful.

His round-ups should have RaHoWa and Skrewdriver as a soundtrack.

He's got the jackbooted thugs removing anyone that doesn't look right.

Tom Metzger and David Duke's dreams came true. White Nationalism got mainstreamed.

The campaign of Donald Trump is just the culmination of many events over the last several years.

They cannot accept that the majority of America does not agree with them. It must be rigged? Or it is the fault of the "lamestream media"?

Trump has been very bad for our country. He has sown derision and division and has appealed to the worst parts of our nature.

It is unfortunate that once the election is over that everything cannot go back to normal. But, it can't. We have to deal with the extremism, the racism, and the sexism that Donald Trump has introduced with his divisive campaign.

That might be the toughest job for the new President?

They cannot accept that the majority of America does not agree with them. It must be rigged? Or it is the fault of the "lamestream media"?

If she gets the senate, things can really get better
with a new SCOTUS.

You either make the other side conform to what you want them to do, or give everyone enough fuck you money that nobody has to deal with anyone they disagree with.

so he'll never really lose, they will steal it from him

4 more years roll by bunches of anti Hillary and Barack folks will have went to the grave. The rest will have gave up to our way of being.