04 Nov 20
So it looks like dems will not make a clean sweep of house, senate and WH.
Probably same ole same ole but with a dem POTUS where nothing AGAIN will happen despite Biden having WH and House. Without Senate we will be stuck in Moscow Mitch traitor mode for the next 4 years. Unless we kick out those bastards 2 years hence.
@sonhouse saidBang on, brother! The one party system. Always a favorite with the Nazis and Commies.
So it looks like dems will not make a clean sweep of house, senate and WH.
Probably same ole same ole but with a dem POTUS where nothing AGAIN will happen despite Biden having WH and House. Without Senate we will be stuck in Moscow Mitch traitor mode for the next 4 years. Unless we kick out those bastards 2 years hence.
04 Nov 20
@earl-of-trumps saidMaybe it's time to abolish the two-party system? It's tearing the country apart and the solution is very obvious (hint: no, it's not a one party system).
Bang on, brother! The one party system. Always a favorite with the Nazis and Commies.
05 Nov 20
@sonhouse saidBiden starts in the same position where Obama languished for years. But can the GOP Senate simply return to a strategy of "block everything"? It's been their signature move, but does it still play in Peoria?
Without Senate we will be stuck in Moscow Mitch traitor mode for the next 4 years. Unless we kick out those bastards 2 years hence.
05 Nov 20
@spruce112358 saidObama started with both house and Senate. 2 years later the voters fixed it.
Biden starts in the same position where Obama languished for years. But can the GOP Senate simply return to a strategy of "block everything"? It's been their signature move, but does it still play in Peoria?
05 Nov 20
@Eladar
The Trump cult is over and my guess is most republican senators and house folks are secretly relieved and will start dickering sincerely with democrats since to seem to be following the Trump cult NOW will backfire BIGTIME if they keep up that really anti American stance they have been on for the past 4 years.
05 Nov 20
The post that was quoted here has been removedBut one doesn't put infections "back in the box." One drains them.
Trump simply revealed the presence in American society of those same human traits that *every* despot taps into. Some people are wired (or become wired) to respond to the message:
- us vs them (God-fearing vs. 'progressive' - ew!)
- it's not your fault (read: whitey)
- you're being scammed (they are so unfair)
- foreigners are taking all the jobs (Mexicans and Muslims)
- your leaders have sold you out (to China)
It's textbook demagoguery. The question is, how did conditions get so ripe for that infection to take off? What ideas, steadily planted over time in certain people's minds - some half-truths, some complete fabrications - prepared the ground for Trump to sprout? He's not an impressive or vigorous or talented character at all. He just blossomed out of perfect conditions - like a fungal infection. So why are so many Americans exhibiting those conditions? How have they been insulted or damaged to allow this?
05 Nov 20
@spruce112358 saidIt might be as simple as Globalism and the accompanying sense angry helplessness. It’s not particularly a US phenomenon the same shift to angry right wing politics can be seen throughout Europe where they have the same trigger points of immigration and footloose manufacturing jobs.
But one doesn't put infections "back in the box." One drains them.
Trump simply revealed the presence in American society of those same human traits that *every* despot taps into. Some people are wired (or become wired) to respond to the message:
- us vs them (God-fearing vs. 'progressive' - ew!)
- it's not your fault (read: whitey)
- you're being scammed (they a ...[text shortened]... so many Americans exhibiting those conditions? How have they been insulted or damaged to allow this?