2016, 2017, 2018

[question everything]

2016 was a shock to all of us. No, not that we lost, but to whom we lost and how we lost. Electoral votes, not popular votes.

During the dancing of the clowns car, the common wisdom was that if Trump were the nominee, we would have an easy sailing.

And yet, after that horrible night I was thinking that it could have been worse; it could have been Ted Cruz..

Trump was not an ideologue, I thought. He used to be a Democrat, used to be pro choice. In one of the debates he was talking about maybe a healthcare system like Canada.

But, of course, 2017 was a horrible year. Starting with the speech in January, the twits, the nastiness, the thin skin, well.. you know.

But 2018 is an election year. So I am looking at this year as a year of hope.

[BigmanPigman]

1. "...expect 2018 to look a lot like 2017,

only with less access to information, higher health insurance premiums, fewer national parks, more melted ice caps and more sanctioned violence". I read this in an article today and posted it under "Good Reads". The author wrote 10 tips for surviving another year of this shit show.

[question everything]

2. The way to survive is to recruit and support good candidates and to hope

that this will be the end of these horrible people in Congress and that Whiny Donny will be castrated, politically, that is. That he will not be able to nominate and to legislate anything simply by saying "I."