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PCIntern

(25,582 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 06:40 AM Jun 2018

I'm sofa king upset...

didn't sleep well at all. The country has been in a death spiral since 11/22/63 and the waters are accelerating as we approach the drain. Somehow all those futuristic films and TV shows depicting the Earth as a faux-utopia with mind control, utter and complete vapidness of character and subservience to the State, electronic monitoring of the citizenry twenty-four hours a day, and unbridled hedonistic behavior, not to mention cannibalism as depicted in Soylent Green, are becoming true at a Tofflerian rate of speed and change.

Oh well, it was a grand experiment that was destined to fail.

That is unless we work as though our lives and the lives of ensuing generations are at stake. It is up to us, the Majority, to wrest control back. To do so we need to do it the way the Republicans did: start at the bottom of the electoral food chain AND, as importantly, do as they do and not consider that there is a valid opposing philosophy or statement. Those were the keys to their successes. Is it possible to reverse course and steer the ship out of the maelstrom? Perhaps...we shall see how dedicated the people are to maintaining their true American Freedoms. We shall know rather soon either way...

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FM123

(10,054 posts)
2. I am not sleeping well at night either,
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 07:16 AM
Jun 2018

I suspect there are many of us on DU that are being robbed of sleep as we are being robbed of democracy.

LuvNewcastle

(16,855 posts)
3. There is something we can do to combat this right wing takeover.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 07:30 AM
Jun 2018

If we pass an amendment that guarantees the right of women to have abortions, for instance, the SCOTUS won't have a say on that issue anymore. Grass roots organization to pass progressive amendments to the Constitution would take time, but it could be done. For every action there is a reaction, and this latest scare could motivate lots of people to become more involved in political matters. There will be a backlash.

Vinca

(50,303 posts)
4. I'm not sleeping well either and for the first time since I was a little kid I'm having nightmares.
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 07:54 AM
Jun 2018

I was blaming the insomnia on getting old, but considering the subjects of the nightmares (being stuck in a room and unable to get out, for example) I think it's all Trump. I'm trying to remember why I thought it was a good idea not to drink anymore. LOL.

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