So It Looks Like All We Can Do Now Is Stand By Helplessly As The Repugs Methodically Dismantle.....

[global1]

all we've worked for over the last 8 years.

[WhiteTara]

1. Make that the last 50 years

civil rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, clean air, clean water, safe food...watch it all go.

[still_one]

2. Unless we can persuade 3 republicans in the Senate, that is exactly what is going

to happen.

The only alternative is to organize people to contact their Representative and Senators in enough numbers to convince them that there will be a price to pay if they start to dismantle programs that are vital to people

[jodymarie aimee]

3. Tara is right..way more than 8 years

They are taking us back to the 1930s. Reversing everything since FDR.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Everything is gone, everything.

It will take longer to steal the Social Security funds, but they will.

Other things will happen quicker. It is all gone, and I mean everything such as you can go back to overtime pay, child labor laws and work your way up to today and every single law or regulation that helps people is gone.

The environmental damage alone will be so overwhelming that many will wish they could live long enough to die from climate change reasons. The economic damage will be swift and overpowering and every time something happens that makes life harder they will blame Obama and liberals and their base will buy it each and every time, BECAUSE to NOT do so is to admit they are wrong, which they never will.

[Yavin4]

5. Yes. Elections have consequences.

Everything from FDR through LBJ is on the line.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Oferchrissakes-- we are NOT helpless...

in two years we have the chance to take congress back. Don't waste that time.

Get your dead ass out there and go to town meetings. Write to your local newspapers, call your local stations. If you can't organize, find someone who can, and get to senior centers, youth centers, and every other damn place that will be hurt.

No big speeches (I just stood in the rain listening to long speeches, and it's not fun) and no whining-- just keep politely pushing OUR agenda and make sure people understand what's going on.

I laugh when Brits are interviewed about BREXIT and say "I didn't think it meant we actually had to leave Europe." Don't think that's not true about Trumpsters.

[gratuitous]

8. Precisely

If you're feeling helpless, at least have the good grace to stand out of the way of those of us who are still motivated to act. We don't really need your defeatist attitude, which you are welcome to keep to yourself.

[jodymarie aimee]

11. I keep telling you guys

We fought like hell in Wisconsin. Rs get absolute power and go mad. Our good DEM legislators are laughed at and told to shut up and sit down. As for we the people, they pay no attention to our calls, emails, townhalls. I know the end of this story. And I am so so sorry.

Our asses aren't dead, they trampled us down for 6 years. They have ALL the power. They corrupted every branch here, including the courts. The USA will become WI.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. I'm not denying they beat you up over the years, but...

as bad as it's been you can't just lie down and give up.

Can you?

C'mon. One day the time will be right and you have to be ready for it.

[uponit7771]

12. This only works in free and fair elections... This was not a free and fair election... Burn shit

... up... Fuck the rest of the dumb shit

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Oh stop it. Or prove it.

[uponit7771]

17. I believe the Intel anngencies vs Russia and Benedict Donald

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. If the Democrats don't filibuster anything, anyway

I wouldn't count on that.

[MineralMan]

9. Perhaps we should have thought of that earlier and

made sure that more Democrats went to their polling places. Hillary won in my precinct with a 60% majority. GOTV is why that happened.

I hope we have learned that lesson, if we learned nothing else from 2016.

But, no, we don't have to stand helplessly by. We can each do our parts to encourage our representatives at all levels of government know how we feel about issues that come up. We can even protest in the street, if that's our decision.

But, looking forward to 2018, we need to realize that we could have done more to get people to the polling places. That we can do in any election, if we have the will to do it and make the effort.

[uponit7771]

13. That's only if this was a free and fair election... It was not... No matter how many more Dems

..Voted we lose based off the facts

[Orrex]

10. Try to be optimistic

There's at least a fair chance that Trump will expire from dehydration following his nonstop public masturbation.

[lpbk2713]

16. Not just the past eight years.

They want to reverse anything that worked for the Middle
and Lower Classes ever since the time of FDR's New Deal.

[obliviously]

18. There goes clean water, fresh air, weed, sex with your desired partner, damn!

[obliviously]

19. I'm outah hear, somebody shut the lights off!

[obliviously]

20. I'm headed for Syria

I heard everybody left there and went to Europe, a whole friggen desert free for the taking!