It’s gonna be ok. Biden/Harris will have almost no power to do serious damage. Republicans will still have the Senate, and will have gained ground in the House. More importantly, Trump has shown us the way to fight. Minority demographic groups have begun waking up. Trump had record levels of support from them for a Republican, including Latino, black, LGBT, etc. These movements are still only in their infancy, and they tend to snowball and go parabolic given enough time. Even if the Dems steal the election this year, it will be the most transparent and obvious theft we’ll have seen in decades. It will hopefully be the last gasp of a discredited and dying ideology. People will only take being abused, manipulated, lied to, pandered to, and cheated on for so long.
“All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
Settle in for the long fight. Never give up or give in.
I’ll leave you with this excerpt from the amazing poem “Crispus Attucks” by John Boyle O’Reilly:
O, blood of the people! changeless tide, through century, creed and race!Still one as the sweet salt sea is one, though tempered by sun and place;The same in the ocean currents, and the same in the sheltered seas;Forever the fountain of common hopes and kindly sympathies;Indian and Negro, Saxon and Celt, Teuton and Latin and Gaul—Mere surface shadow and sunshine; while the sounding unifies all!One love, one hope, one duty theirs! No matter the time or ken,There never was separate heart-beat in all the races of men!But alien is one—of class, not race—he has drawn the line for himself;His roots drink life from inhuman soil, from garbage of pomp and pelf;His heart beats not with the common beat, he has changed his life-stream’s hue;He deems his flesh to be finer flesh, he boasts that his blood is blue:Patrician, aristocrat, tory—whatever his age or name,To the people’s rights and liberties, a traitor ever the same.The natural crowd is a mob to him, their prayer a vulgar rhyme;The freeman’s speech is sedition, and the patriot’s deed a crime.Wherever the race, the law, the land,—whatever the time, or throne,The tory is always a traitor to every class but his own.Thank God for a land where pride is clipped, where arrogance stalks apart;Where law and song and loathing of wrong are words of the common heart;Where the masses honor straightforward strength, and know, when veins are bled,That the bluest blood is putrid blood—that the people’s blood is red!
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The Iran deal was unconstitutional, but went forward anyway. DACA was simply an EO that should have been able to be rescinded by an EO, but has somehow vested property rights in non citizens now deemed to require full Due Process to remove, which has been deemed to mean a law.
Don’t tell me the dumbest man ever elected can’t do damage.
Thank whatever controlling entity you may or may not believe in that President Trump managed to seat Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and (best of the lot) Barrett on the Bench
This situation should not have happened. It wouldn’t have happened if the feckless Republicans had done their job. They didn’t so THEY have given up our country for a bowl of 3 week old moldy oatmeal.
I no longer consider my self a Republican. I am simply an American who wants America to stay America.
I am a natural pessimist but IF the Senate holds I would feel better.