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In reply to the discussion: It is heartsickening to see America go down this road. [View all]smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)25. You know that parable about the frog being dropped in extremely hot water
and jumping out right away, and then he sits in a pan of water that is turned up degree by degree until he cooks to death?
That is what I feel the US has become. We have become so used to extreme right wing bullshit that we don't even recognize how harmful it has become. Slowly this nation has been pushed toward the right and now it is at it's limit. We accept this as normal but it's not. It is so incredibly, phenomenally fucked up and we are so used to it that we cannot see what an extreme nation we have become.
Something has to change. We cannot go down like this.
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I would much rather have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho than DJT any day!
FrodosPet
Oct 2016
#8
Probably the same voters who supported torture, so really, it is neither shocking
Solly Mack
Oct 2016
#6
I've said from the beginning that this election is a referendum ON the state of American citizens.
Trust Buster
Oct 2016
#10
how did this come about? decades of propaganda from the media, decades of schools not
niyad
Oct 2016
#11
teaching history???? have you been following the crap in texas, in nd, for what the reichwingnuts
niyad
Oct 2016
#38
If any president ever gets impeached and removed, it would be Trump if elected
duffyduff
Oct 2016
#22
I've lost respect for about 1/2 of this country. If Trump were to win, I'm seriously considering
RKP5637
Oct 2016
#27