Truth Is We Can't Stop The GOP From Destroying US As We Know It. Protest Probably Not Enough.

[TheMastersNemesis]

As much as we protest and as unpopular as GOP policies are we cannot truly stop them from delivering shit sandwich after shit sandwich. They will go after Social Security and Medicare to end them completely. They will not listen and do not listen now. If anything they double down on their determination from the way things look.

This secret health care bill is just the beginning of GOP secret government. They count on apathy and racism to allow them to move forward. Of course we must continue to fight. New tactics will likely be necessary.

I do not get how they are getting so far with almost no public resistance. Call all you want, but there is no one there to answer.

[angstlessk]

1. Only Russia can save the GOP now!

[Matthew28]

2. Sadly, I agree

People will have to suffer for a few years or maybe a decade before they get angry enough to finally wish dig out of their own idiocy.

We will likely lose healthcare, national parks, and quality of life in this nation.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. The Best Hope Is That Resistance Becomes Revolt Against GOP.

Until the GOP fears regular Americans more than the RW and Kochs, nothing will change.

[pintobean]

14. That's what Hodgkinson thought.

[Jacquette]

4. After a decade there will be nothing left

at least for the middle class. They will be so entrenched America will become a vast wastland with little or no spending on infrastructure, education.

There'll be luxurious enclaves for the super rich; Chinese, Russian oligarchs, So. American drug kingpins, American billionaires....and a vast supply of unending cheap labor.

[pnwmom]

5. Well, encouraging HOPELESSNESS sure doesn't help.

Impeachment takes a while -- yes. But the investigations have already slowed the Rethugs down, and will continue to bedevil them as time goes on.

We all need to continue with the protests, continue with the phone calls, and NOT GIVE UP. That's what they want and we can't give it to them!

And right now we need to be fighting on healthcare even harder than we did with the house bill:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029229482

[napi21]

6. The only way to FIX THE PROBLEM is at the voting booth, but I believe if we can generate an

exciting and nationwide resistance, with protests , we can generate interest and maybe get enough Pubs to recognize whst's being done to them. "Even people who don't pay attention to politics and cable news hear about protests that are big & loud enough. Sooner or later they'll check to see what all the fuss is all about.

[RKP5637]

7. Many Americans are sheep, succumb to authoritarian rule and take the easiest way out. Hell,

many are too F'en lazy too even vote.

[LenaBaby61]

8. Agree OP ...

IF we were assured of having fair elections, then 2018/2020 would mean something. But, we do NOT have a fair voting system, this current installed occupant of the White House has GOP-led Dem voter-suppression that will be off the chain in 2018/2020, with "assistance" from the ruskies who will have their interjection into our elections down to a fine science by this time next year--hell, maybe even THIS year. beauguard as AG is delighted that Dems/minorities won't be able to xercise their votes.

The pig installed into the White House is in love with putin and beholden TO the him/ruskie oligarchs, mobsters, so of course they'll have input into our elections in 2018 and 2020. The ruskies have more say so into our democracy than Dems or citizens who don't agree with tRumputin, the GOP or with ruskie meddling into our elections.

We as a country are in HORRIBLE places in SO many ways.

[Initech]

9. I feel like we're living in Terminator 3.

There's nothing we could do to stop Skynet from being deployed. The damage has already been done. No matter how much we tried to stop it, all we were doing was just delaying the inevitable, and Skynet will be deployed.

[VOX]

10. Welcome to Pass-the-Hemlock Underground!

Republicans have ALREADY destroyed everything in sight. #45 is a symptom, not the disease. Thus, the resistance in only beginning.

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it -- always."― Mahatma Gandhi

[struggle4progress]

11. Gloom, Despair & Agony

[cwydro]

12. I honestly do not know how you make it through every day.

You are the most consistently negative, doomsaying poster on DU.

Get a grip, man. Seriously.

[calguy]

13. We are probably going to look like Mexico did for decades

One party rule and mass poverty for those without political connections. This will only turn around at the voting booths, and sad to say our side doesn't vote when it counts, and the other side controls the airways and the finances. Buckle Up. It's going to be a long strange trip.