Depressed---ashamed---angry---disgusted---outraged--------
I lay each and every one of these painful negative emotions at the feet of those who even now still labor to destroy our democracy and anoint a gang of immoral fascist thugs to dictate how we live our lives, raise our children, choose our friends and worship their version of "God".
I'm closing in on three quarters of a century and never did I imagine that MY country---the great United States of America---would permit a transparently amoral and monstrous charlatan like Trump to foul our White House, steal our Supreme Court and facilitate the election to our Congress of liars, criminals and maniacs whose sole qualification was their willingness to eagerly compete for the "privilege" of kissing his --- ring.
"We the People" have kidnapped and caged children. We have banned people from entering our nation based solely on their religion. We have watched an insurrectionist mob invade and defile our Capitol over two years ago and none of those who instigated, planned and financed the traitorous effort have yet faced any punishment. We have "fictional people", open racists and idiots presuming to dictate the course of our government. We have religious zealots who believe their faith entitles them to tell doctors what medical procedures are appropriate for pregnant women and tell scientists to sit down and shut up about the steady deterioration of our global environment.
I grew up "south of the tracks". I do not intend to go quietly.
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Like a cornered animal, they're fighting like crazy.
We have to let elected officials and law enforcement officials uphold the constitution that the folks still trying to undo the civil war are trying to tear down. Because they have the power to do so. We don't.
HOWEVER we need to use the changing demographics, and the increasing revulsion to the blind hate, wacko conspiracies and brutality of the RW to increase awareness, get out the vote, and light a fire under young people and all the minorities under assault (who will soon be a plurality* ) to stop the "White Christian Nationalist" (I call it Falangist) movement, and bury the movement alongside Generalissimo Fancisco Franco, who at last account is still dead.
I'm a year short of 3/4 century and building a head of steam!! (AND electricity)
I'm not forgetting and I'm fighting. With ballots, not bullets.
I'm energized, not depressed. (Veterans, do we shrink from a challenge?)
Did people just fold for Jim Clark at Edmund Pettus Bridge? (named for a Confederate general and Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan)
(*) From Wikipedia:
Six states are majority-minority as of July 2019: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland.
In the United States of America, majority-minority area or minority-majority area is a term describing a U.S. state or jurisdiction whose population is composed of less than 50% non-Hispanic whites.
and few GOP voters seem to know it.
Who the hell came in our back door and ate up all our morals and democratic standards and loving beliefs?
Good and righteous rant!.......
they are just so totally resistant to reason. You cant tell me if Obama said or did the same things as Trump, they would not be outraged.
I have tried over and over to talk with them but NOTHING can change their minds. They are the real patriots and the rest of the country are socialists, communists or RINOS..
Trump is their God and right wing bullshit is their Bible..and dont ever bother to tell them otherwise 
Very sad..and very frustrating
Holy crap. Desantis is even scarier and more deranged than I originally thought. He truly scares me, and we have to fight back against his madness with everything we got. 
