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In reply to the discussion: I'm getting depressed.... I feel like evil is winning... [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)and just get back to normal? When I think about the waste of time, money and effort that will be necessary to put everything to rights again, it makes me I'll.
How do we get the special interest groups, the lobbyists, the religious activists, the foreign influence and the corporate profiteers out of our government?
How do we make sure the court system is staffed by competent, fairminded and nonpartisan judges? Can we stop rightwing groups from writing designer legislation to curry favor with their elite donor lists?
What about our diminished standing among world leaders that were formerly our valued and trusted allies for decades? How to we ever recover our reputation after Trump has revealed the US as a quasi dictatorship in league with the worst despots and tyrants of the world?
I don't know the answers, but it's well past depression when my brain is on overdrive just racking up long lists of all things things we will have to fix before we can even plan to anything new. I won't live long enough to see this wondrous concept of America ever restored.