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From the farce of yesterday's hearing on Capitol Hill ("oversight" by mendacity) to the spectacle in Great Britain (a President's destabilizing, unstable, and racist interview) to the trailing exhaust of American leadership left in Brussels (with a friend like the U.S. who needs... Russia?) to what awaits in Helsinki (a bromance with a wily KGB agent), what we are witnessing is far beyond the realm of this reporter to put into full context.
I doubt Dante could imagine the circles in which we find ourselves. P.T. Barnum couldn't figure out a way to sell it. And Rod Serling would shake his head in disbelief. All metaphors are rendered largely impotent - be they circus, swamp, or dumpster fire - because they seem to understate the sheer dangerous absurdity of it all. There can be no individual accounting of all damage.
I surmise this is what in some ways passes for the strategy of the President and his accomplices. See how many reactionary judges they can install, how many loopholes for the rich and connected they can construct, how many protections to health, water and air they can shred before the inevitable backlash.
I list all of this not to sow the seeds of hopelessness. Quite the contrary. That is what the forces of authoritarianism wish - that they can launch a reclamation of the Gilded Age on the backs of a demoralized majority. But I have seen these types of actors before. I have seen these odds. They cannot understand that the forces of goodness can channel a fury of righteousness and action. The time for slumber is over. No one can ever argue that elections do not have consequences. Even with the hurdles they are erecting to democracy no President and no political party, no matter how cynical they may be, is bigger than the country at large.
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stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)highplainsdem
(48,959 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)thank you
We must vote them out.
gademocrat7
(10,651 posts)dhill926
(16,335 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)calimary
(81,192 posts)Alameda
(1,895 posts)Where was it posted, other than here?
G_j
(40,366 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)I had to click 'more' 3 times to get the whole text.
I fear there are many Democrats who sat on their asses in the last election who do not recognize the magnitude of our national emergency. They will sit home and watch reality TV while Rome burns.
elmac
(4,642 posts)Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
and I believe it is a big problem today, drugs to keep us calm, mellow while the fascists destroy our lives. People don't care as long as they have that false sense of wellbeing. The song, in the year 2525
dae
(3,396 posts)Zager & Evans
Junior in HS, awkward years; but, then most of my 60+ have been.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)We have to vote. Get up and vote....be it a school board vote on up. There can be no doubt now this is a far riight fascist push and not just here in the USA. These evil far right minions are feeling their oats world wide.
cp
(6,622 posts)Thank you, Dan Rather.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Thank you, Mr. Rather!
yonder
(9,663 posts)says it all