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30. What's even worse is, how do we undo it all
Sat Jun 22, 2019, 08:47 AM
Jun 2019

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.


Read 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: applegrove Jun 2019 #1
You are not alone. Boomerproud Jun 2019 #2
I have been holding on since the 2016 election. Now, I'm finding it hard to hold on. SharonAnn Jun 2019 #39
We did something in 2018. We'll accomplish more in 2020 if we GOTV. Hoyt Jun 2019 #3
Its nice to think so angrychair Jun 2019 #13
Not the least bit concerned that will happen. Hoyt Jun 2019 #31
It always seems darkest just before the dawn... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #4
I'm with you. Kath2 Jun 2019 #5
Tom Steyer was on MSNBC today and BigmanPigman Jun 2019 #6
Right on! Kath2 Jun 2019 #7
Absolutely! CountAllVotes Jun 2019 #8
Thank you. Kath2 Jun 2019 #9
It has to come sooner than 2020. AllyCat Jun 2019 #16
Get the book by Yale holocaust historian Timothy Snyder Grasswire2 Jun 2019 #10
Calm down there. If you give into despair you cannot win. rusty quoin Jun 2019 #11
in the meantime Skittles Jun 2019 #15
So you give in too? rusty quoin Jun 2019 #22
we are at quite a standstill Skittles Jun 2019 #24
Whenever I start getting depressed lunatica Jun 2019 #12
I do the same. mfcorey1 Jun 2019 #29
Me too. Didn't watch any news over the weekend. Helped my sanity. SharonAnn Jun 2019 #40
people get disillusioned when they see evil winning Skittles Jun 2019 #14
The quantity of scandals which unfold from day-to-day is mind boggling... GReedDiamond Jun 2019 #17
Bush and Cheney got away with their crimes SHRED Jun 2019 #18
Heck that's just politics... rwsanders Jun 2019 #19
+100 Duppers Jun 2019 #32
11th commandment freindship 7 Jun 2019 #20
The Bush-Cheney cabal got away with it. Duppers Jun 2019 #33
welcome to DU gopiscrap Jun 2019 #35
right now I have some in-laws at my house and I blocked Fox news so they've been watching CNN TalenaGor Jun 2019 #21
Don't be depressed Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #23
"The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer" jmbar2 Jun 2019 #25
To be in the mind of Sarandon types... Chicago1980 Jun 2019 #26
Patience. 57% millennials are Dem only 32% Repub Cicada Jun 2019 #27
They are my hope. Duppers Jun 2019 #34
here we go...... obamanut2012 Jun 2019 #28
What's even worse is, how do we undo it all procon Jun 2019 #30
You are not alone. smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #36
That's how they want you to feel... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #37
This country was never really all that great Calculating Jun 2019 #38
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