Will Americans really fight back?
63,000,000 among us put an orange baboon in the White House. He has already perverted the justice system.
His other appointments defy belief. Half the cabinet is trying to disband their own cabinets.
I'm not impressed with my countrymen. The conservatives are beneath contempt. Every kind. The corporatists and oligarchs. The theocrats. The tea baggers. The nationalist haters. They really should have at least three or four different parties. A big tent is only good for a circus, and the circuses are all closing down.
As for my fellow liberals, they upset me even more. The pollyanna's who actually believe that we've all got more in common than we have differences particularly frost my ass.
If I had ANYTHING in common with some troglodyte with (R) after his or her name, I'd have it amputated.
Socialized medicine is the standard of the civilized world and DINOs are afraid to fight for it. People have to go into lifelong debt to be educated, and so-called moderate Dems like the Clintons--and let's be honest--Obama wasn't exactly a socialist-- say we can't give everything away. I'm to the left of Bernie's Medicare for all. I'm for a National Health Service exactly like the UK--I'm for free public college for those who did the work to earn admittance--and I'm for the progressive income tas rates that will pay for it.
Plus despite being better educated, we don't always sound smarter than our conservative protagonists. We promote carefully drafted gun laws. but when most liberals talk about firearms, they obviously don't know shit about them.
And we don't shout down the cries of American Exceptionalism. American Exceptionalism is all about being anti-worker, ant-consumer, and anti-environment while enriching the oligarchs. American Exceptionalism is about being exceptionally socially regressive. WE HAVE FOR PROFIT PRIVATE PRISONS for Christ's sake.
Conservatives generally have no morals and no character. They obviously lack the probity and rectitude to govern. But they usually have balls (except for a lot of their cops).
That's what too many of us are lacking. The stomach to play hardball. And until we acquire it, the pachyderms will keep stealing our lunch money.
Okay, Nifty. This was worth repeating.
Thank you for it.