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In reply to the discussion: Anybody else no longer love this country? Hesitated to post, but gotta get this off my chest. [View all]caraher
(6,276 posts)I had hoped that 2016 was a fluke, brought on in part by decades of focused right-wing hit jobs on our candidate. This time we run a middle-of-the-road white male with integrity light years ahead of Trump and we're looking at basically the same kind of popular vote margins?
This period of history is revealing what many of us have known for a long time about the gulf between our professed ideals and the reality of what white Americans truly believe, and are willing to say at the ballot box. I had a lot of optimism about generational change, the support of youth for Bernie and a progressive agenda, and yet it looks like the GOP is still able to strangle the best of these ideas (regardless of the Biden vote, the Senate seems out of reach and the courts have already been packed).