This country is thoroughly screwed for at least a generation. People haven't taken stock of how much damage has already been done. 2026 and 2028 won't magically fix this. It's going to be a long walk.
This country is thoroughly screwed for at least a generation. People haven't taken stock of how much damage has already been done. 2026 and 2028 won't magically fix this. It's going to be a long walk.
Truth. The consequences of the incompetence from the first time around, COVID ineptitude specifically, is still in play & will continue to be for years. The fuckery going on now? Decades of rebuild & we're only 6 months in & Mother Nature's unforeseen hasn't even entered the picture... yet.
I'm 50, I'm not sure it will be in my lifetime, which really scares me for my kids (one of whom has significant disabilities)
Definitely scared for the kids (I have 3)
If we’re lucky things will start getting better by the time Halley’s Comet returns
I am 60. My trump supporting friends often highlight their 'it's gonna be alright' comments with, I won't be around for much of this. Seriously. Happy they will be dead when their vote makes it's zenith effects.
I think it might take a little longer for the world to get back in bed….for us, this isn’t all about Trump - it’s about the massive number of supporters & enablers. From out here, it sure looks like this is the agenda America wants. (Remember your roots!)
American apathy continues to show itself. There are people who haven't a clue that anything is even wrong.
When only 3% of my county voted in our Virginia June 17th Democratic Primary 2025 primary, and statewide slightly less than 2021 levels, the apathy continues. I had to remind one neighbor like 4 times to vote. She keeps saying she wants to be active, but when I mention specific things - crickets.
Good for you for trying to talk to her. I had a "Hands off" sign in my car window & a friend was like, what is that... what does it mean? I didn't know where to start. So I said "social security" because we're both retired. Now I have "No Kings" sign & a few have teased me about it. 🤷♀️
Or who absolutely go about their day pretending like it's just another weekday and not the END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.
Oh totally. They make travel plans. They joke. They plan their 4th of July BBQs. I don't know what to celebrate on the 4th. Independence from a mad 🤴 only to vote in a new mad 🤴.
Exactly.
A lot. And they think it’s rude to suggest otherwise.
‘Rudeness’ in a culture of armed savagery. Says it all.
Totally agree. I am 70 and I do not think I will see the damage done fixed in my lifetime
It is. But they’re severely underestimating how pissed we are.
Anything not fixed in one term will never be fixed. The Republicans will campaign hard on Democrat failure to solve every problem and will sweep back into power on that wave. They’ll then return to form and destroy things. That was the point of Project 2025. To cause change that cannot be undone.
Just imagine what a full 4 years worth of damage will look like.
No, not just a generation. This is the end of America. And you're living it and in it! Oh, how the mighty fall! 𝙊𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙'𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨, 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙚. 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝙄𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙙, 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙪𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣.
I really don’t believe that the US was ever the world’s moral compass though. That’s just what they would have us believe.
Goddamn I feel so bad. My daughter realizes what is up and it is really affecting her. I know that my retirement is probably screwed. WTH do we do. This is messed up bigly, thanks Don and Republicans and do-nothing Dems Bunch of clowns. Making yourselves richer.
Build it back like Denmark.
I totally agree! The DAMAGE he's done in just 5 months will take YEARS to undo! I doubt I'll live to see our Country recover from this!
The scary thing is that we can’t even count on that there will be a 2026 election. The Trump/Republican government knows that they are threatened by a blue wave and will declare some kind of “national emergency” to disrupt the election. Or maybe even cancel it.
Exactly. I was waiting for someone to write this.
It will be a marathon, not a sprint.
If at all we do recover from this as a country
I fear that this doesn’t end until we reach a version of Berlin 1945. I only hope that mass death from military conquest, dehumanizing minorities, concentration camps, starvation and rampant despair don’t come along with it. If we’re lucky America will suffer only worldwide scorn and isolation.
And this assumes people can vote. It also assumes people will vote correctly.
Seems like the US will need a major reckoning and makeover
It’s been a long time coming. I hope we are least ripped the bandaid off.
Absolutely. You are correct, Wajahat. The damage that has been done will take years to fix if it all can be fixed. Sadly, there are no guarantees that Trump won't declare martial law and prevent elections from happening next year. I hope I'm wrong.
Soon Mexico will need a wall the keep fleeing Americans out
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Elections won't magically change the Empire. Newsom has supported Empire & will say anything to get to the top. When Kennedy turned to peace & restraining Israel, he was assassinated. People have to rely on themselves.
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We need to rebuild from the ground up now. One the bright side we know where most of the fatal errors are and can create a much stronger and fairer system!✊✌️🫶
Yes but 2026 & 2028 democratic wins will be a good start back to where the country should be.
Yea if we still can vote
It's up to the states not the federal gov't.
Oh, dear.
We will still vote.
Check out Florida
We have to make it to 2026, and then 2028 for expected events in those years to be able to fix anything
Ahh...stop ya sooking. WW3 is well on the way and just like an etcha-sketch you can shake the crap out of it....and start again. You do know how to start a fire without a match don't you?
The courts were the biggest problem. They have returned a basically irreversible decision that a thing can be unconstitutional in Iowa, but not in Florida. Exactly how does that work?
I am seriously worried about 2026 and 2028. I think they might 🤔 have unauthorized election activity. To wit, he may have turned our elections into a scam, Soviet style.
Who hasn’t taken stock? We’re living that nightmare every day.
Completely agree. Honestly trying to convince my daughter that we should move elsewhere after she graduates from college. I want a better quality of life for her than she will ever get here
yep
Take a long break and then come back with revolutionary thoughts.
And at the end of that generational period, the ice-caps melt and the oceans rise 50', so at least we got that going for us.
The auto pen is going to be super busy in those last months of the #TACO presidency with the conveyor belt of avalanche of preemptive pardons churning across someone’s desk.
It is so important, to step up & time to local/state govt. A big problem is who is getting elected. Highly likely that the 2/3rds who did not vote in the pres elect, don't vote in the smaller ones either. This is a cntry where what is normal in one state gets prison time in another one. 😳
Look at all the nice people on this thread just laying down for the long haul. All comfy cozy, buying some canned goods for next year, waiting to forfeit the rest of their lives to a treasonous mob felon. Too bad, you think your life is worth so little.
You're correct. No matter how much you warn them and even explain why,, too many in 'merica know better.
Sad but true...I will likely be long gone from this earth before the damage done just in the last six months can begin to be remediate. That makes me very sad, but I am still hopeful it can be done.
Hell, who didn't see this coming? I'm serious. People have been brainwashed by the sane washed news about Trump for more than 10 years. Everyone in the media is now complicit and you can't prove me wrong.
Fuck anyone selling cynical malaise as wisdom. There would never have been a Civil Rights Act or Voting Right Act if cynics like you prevailed along with the oppressors. You choose to give up a generation or you do NOT. Don’t. FFS.
There are many ways to reverse this nightmare within a generation. This claim that it’s all over for 20-30 years only empowers those people who are intent on destroying our Constitutional republic. Stop suppressing the hope & movements that can block this bullshit by voting, suing & working.
Decades!!
A long walk for sure. It might not even happen in my lifetime 🤷♀️
At this point not sure is Americans will ever get back their country. Huge failure of your system and media.
I'm afraid if trump hangs around full term , that it will be impossible for america to recover. It will take 5 to 10 to fix the damage done so far. (republicans/maga will resist any attempts to fix anything)
I’m 59 & fear my generation is the last to truly see democracy in action, imperfect at best & tainted from Reagan et al at worst. My children are inheriting a future that will be marred with the stain of greed, radical hatred, racism, & corruption. I hold onto hope that they will right the ship.
They can leave the country go to a more civilized place
No, most can't.
strong "well if you don't like it here you can just get out!" vibes.
Have you actually looked into that. It is fuckin' difficult. No one is rolling out any red carpet to take us in. The hurdles are large and expensive.
Tell that to the people who immigrated to the US with far less $$
Right? If they didn't hate us before, from our government being shits all over the world for decades...they really fucking hate us now.
We like Bernie. He's a good American.
It was never easy for Americans to move abroad. You had to open a business & employee folks, or buy a expensive real estate. A few years back, I resesarched. Several countries had made it easier, then, rich Americans & others showed up & ruined it, jacking up prices. It is now difficult again.
At this point, Id consider Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica or some of the small island nations in the Caribbean that are willin to take in US citizens if they have at least 2000 USD in pension funds guaranteed. That's my retirement goal: Mexico, Colombia, Panama or Costa Rica.
All very good options and fyi Mexico is every bit as safe as America these days
Plus that badass @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social is running the country. She seems like a fierce warrior who has genuine love for her country and humanity.
The rich ones, maybe.
Wtf are you yapping about?
I used to whine about not having grandchildren....I don't anymore.
You are pretty much fooked. This was evident in 2016.
The republicans are working to ensure that there will be no mid terms and no elections in 2028.
Thank you. Wake up people.
Posting "Wake up people" on social media has literally never woken up a single soul. Posts cannot be heard and are often not even read by most of the population. Try other means.
Yeah, and we have to fight to stop them. Neglecting that part makes what you're saying just doomerism that depresses and dissuades resistance.
People do need to know just what they're up against and the longer this goes on the more damage is done. People need to figure out what they are made of and what they are willing to do.
It was the largest single nation protest in the history of humankind. And what has changed? We need to follow-up the 4th of July protest and marches with a complete economic blackout for 3 days! No Walmart, no Target, no Exxon, no McDonald's, no Starbucks, no Amazon, no Temu, No home depot. RESIST!
Good grief, politics is not a microwave oven. You don’t get results in 60 seconds.
You need to stay in the streets like the Georgian people. Over 200 days now. General strikes and massive. Everyone congratulated themselves on one day - knowing that one day changed nothing.
It's been 3 separate days, weeks apart, peaceful, non-violent, and I would never downplay or cast aspersions on the organizers efforts. But we need to start hitting the oligarchs the only place they care about, their cash flow. No Walmart, no Target, no Exxon, no McDonald's, no Kroger, Temu. RESIST!
We need to target their propaganda media outlets starting with Fox. That is their main strength, and you attack your opponent's strengths, especially propaganda sources.
Fox news lost three quarters of a BILLION dollars for lying. People still watch them. They're leading in both total viewership and the key demographic of adults 25-54. Their ratings were double that of ABC during the bombing. Good luck with that.
Yeah, they don't, and never got it. It is a war, a propaganda blitzkrieg ,I think sun Tzu (?) covered it strategically. Not escalation per se-but they are taking it to the streets; to combat this, asymmetrically, one needs Intel, observation, and taking it back directly to their homes.
generalstrikeus.com
I don't like calling for a strike, because working people need to work. But a boycott, a spending blanket blackout of corporate America, is something almost anyone can do. Go to the library, take out a book. Skip the movies, dig that unrecognizable stuff out of the bottom of the freezer. Resist!
I love a spending blackout and do participate. A countrywide strike would have to be organized in a way that those with less resources could count on those with more to share until the strike succeeded.
I’m thinking 10 years to fix and the Republican Nazis can’t have control of anything during that time if there is to be any change. They can’t control the House or the Senate or the Presidency they are a ruined and damaged and corrupt party. They have all been complicit in worshiping a felon rapist
So have the Dems. None of this would have happened if the Dems hadn’t sold out to money and then abandoned the working class and poor.
No Dem has worshiped a felon rapist
No, but, they just let him off for his crimes, never even said jail perpetuate corruption in federal, state, and local government, do right-wing propaganda all damn day, every effing day, they vote for his incompetent cabinet, his corrupt judges, and most of his stupid fascist policies
No, actually, it is the fascists who are responsible for fascism. But thanks for trying.
No, actually, "Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" "Fascism is capitalism in crisis mode, and liberals are capitalists" thus, you are wrong; America has always been (Rs & Ds both) a kakistocracy, benefiting villains at the cost of fools "We, the people" is a lie $ above all, always
Indeed, the one and only original ‘green’ party - bank$
Ah, yes. The spoiler party that cost Gore the election. I can't help but feel a deep depression when I consider what life would be like had he won and not Bush.
I meant green as in greenbacks, dollars, money.
Ah, missed that. My bad.
Oh, dear. One of you people.
You should listen to “one of these people.” They are correct and have a greater understanding of where fascism comes from then it just being a spontaneous outgrowth of the bad party which you seem to think it is.
Oh, interesting. I love coming across posters who have an omniscient understanding of the sum total of all my knowledge, perspective, and experiences. You're certainly not making any great case for yourself here, my guy.
Well, you discount a material and rationale explanation as to why we are in this mess without coming up with a better answer. I can only assume that all your knowledge, perspective, and experiences have given you very little insight at all into the current state of things.
We can absolutely talk about material conditions but, I'm sorry, blaming Dems for GOP obstructionism and deregulation is ridiculous.
You haven’t been paying attention over the last 40 years then. Democrats have never pulled back republican excesses even when given the power and mandate to do so, they fail. They fail so often that one cannot be blamed for believing that Dems agree with what the republicans are doing.
No. It will be a generation. The world will not trust you again.
I try to be hopeful that when the day comes, real change might happen too. We have been walking toward this point for a while…
I’m feeling pretty discouraged after these last two SCOTUS rulings. They keep giving the executive ⬆️ power which makes me worried GOP/ SCOTUS are going try to make sure we don’t have another Democratic president. The only answer is for us to win big majority in the House so we can protect certifying
2 generations before we fix this The rural American rubes need to be really hurt before they shift gears
Do you know how long it will take to even begin a fix after four years of this sh*t! It will be a very long and winding road...
All it takes is 30 million people with the courage to use the second amendment.
I’m angry that there’s a good chance we won’t get anything back in 2026 as far as House and Senate seats The ineptitude and the arrogance in old school Democrats is showing - ignoring younger candidates who have a clear shot to win seats
There won't be 2026, or 2028 AT ALL, if we don't break the stranglehold over voting precincts, ballots and machines that MAGA REPUBLICANS hold! They stole the 2024 election (except THIS "conspiracy theory" is true) and you all aren't even addressing this.
And '16. '20, which was all mail in votes, was hard to change outcomes systemically without the cybersphere interference.
They are also mistaken about how we got here and WHO helped get us here. The worshipping of politicians is insane.
And some of us will never see it. We voted and protested against this for decades and what for? To watch this country descend into authoritarianism. Beyond sad. I can only hope for my child that they turn it around. The faster the better.
No funding for dept of education, so, people will remain ignorant
Worst part is that our ruling class just let it happen so they could get a tax cut
No, all Americans watched + let it happen. ALL did.
I blame the most powerful. I believe in punching up
💯 but we're in ignoranceville + "I want it now"/1 and done mentality. It brought us here & is our seed of destruction.I want to believe ppl will change but color me skeptical. Hence the outlook being bleak on this front. But I hold fierce hope & determination despite evidence to the contrary.🙄🤞
Fight now or fight later. Either way, this won't change without a fight.
They can’t kill us all. Ok, they can, but then no one can work at Amazon.
I wake up every day and say I'm glad I'm already old. It's going to be like Soylent Green in a few years.
A lot of people are upset but it’s only been 5+ months. Long way to go…
I legitimately don’t understand the end goal anymore. It’s really like they just “want to watch the world burn” and nothing else
The goal is to save the failing patriarchy.
They want to make the USA a safe place for hostile straight white men.
They set the world on fire and now they're desperate to keep any scraps for themselves
They want Russian oligarch style power.
Moses Mike wants WWIII to bring on the apocalypse, there was a huge article about it years ago...how these Rapture Freaks really want that
I’m always amazed that the same people who are such die-hard Bible freaks live their lives like Hell doesn’t exist.
I really hope it does...I feel like a freaking saint next to those zealots.
Your correct 2026/2028 will not magically fix everything that the republicans have broken but the change must happen and that is one step forward to that goal!
Infuckingdeed, Wajahat. (shame, fear, fury)
2016 and 2024 - many of us were screaming that the Supreme Court was the most important issue on the ballot and we got shouted down by people upset Hillary was on the ballot and bullshit about Harris being just as bad as Trump, especially with Gaza. Well now that we're fucked I hope y'all are happy
I’ve been very pro-abortion since before 2016 and knew what FDRLST et al have been doing forever ( as in longer than I’ve been alive ) and after HRC stole the nomination from Bernie and got Trump nominated I busted my ass knocking doors for her She went out of her way to lose and Harris said「 HMB 」
Bernie absolutely would’ve won and Harris or Hillary easily could have if they didn’t bust their asses to alienate the base and generally suck so badly that they could just barely clear the impossibly low bar of being marginally better than trump by some measures.
I hope you're happy with a Joe Biden who was unwilling to fight against thos fascist threat and prevent the insurrectionists from holding office like he should have.
You know who let an insurrectionist hold office? SCOTUS. Biden is not to blame FFS.
There's plenty of blame to go around. Biden did not make it a priority to prevent this shit from happening again after Trump 1.0. He appointed a milquetoast AG who didn't do shit
Oh FFS, Biden had a HUGE fucking mess to clean up IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEADLY PANDEMIC which the GOP made worse by getting their brainwashed cult members to avoid preventing the spread of it. Trump WAS prosecuted & SCOTUS protected him and so did Cannon.
COVID did not prevent Merrick Garland from acting swiftly re Jan 6 charges lmao what the hell are you talking about
SCOTUS handed Biden the legal framework to fucking ASSASSINATE TRUMP. you are bending over backwards to make the president of the United States a weakling who never could have done anything to stop this
Ummmm . . . SCOTUS gets to determine what is an official act. They would never protect Biden from killing Trump but they will protect Trump if he kills Biden. Also, do you really want to live in a country where presidents have their opponents killed FFS?
also: don't give me Biden's covid conduct as an excuse, he's killed more people than Trump in that regard. Trump didn't turn off the free vaccines
Trump's sycophants helped turn his voters off vaccines and masks. THAT killed oodles of people. My shots are still free. None of us will have free shots (and probably won't have access to shots) once RFK Jr gets his way.
"My shots are still free!" okay, well I'm talking about the uninsured. Jesus fucking Christ check outside of your own head once in a while
They ran out of funding FFS. www.google.com/amp/s/thehil...
Biden and Pelosi didn’t hold trump / the other insurrectionists to account nor use § 3 of the 14th to block them from holding office with a simple majority vote in Congress ( which they could easily have done for two years ) *AFTER* Dobbs overturned Roe he said I don’t want to politicise the court
Oh, my bad. All the crap the GOP has done to turn our country into a dictatorship IS the Democrats' fault. I'll give the GOP a pass and focus all my anger and hate at the Democrats. SMH
LMFAO yeah that’s *EXACTLY* what I said. Everybody knows the GOP is trash. I’ve never voted for a Republican and I’d bet you never have either. That party we have both voted for consistently are worse than worthless they’re actively collaborating and you’re here defending them.
THEY COULD HAVE BLOCKED TRUMP AND THE DOZENS OF INSURRECTIONISTS IN CONGRESS FROM HOLDING OFFICE BUT CHOSE NOT TO THEY COULD HAVE EXPANDED OR REFORMED THE COURT THEY COULD HAVE GIVEN DC STATEHOOD They didn’t. They wouldn’t. That’s not on me nor the GOP.
Do you know how the filibuster works? They did NOT have the votes in the Senate to pass those things.
Yeah it’s a made up rule the majority can change at any time. God damn you fucking people are so convinced of your own intelligence and knowledge and think nobody knows or understands anything
So . . . if no one will change it, they have to abide by it. Manchin & Sinema would NOT vote to change the rules. Again, they didn't have the votes. Sorry you seem to want to live in a fantasy world like the Trump voters do. Here's a reminder of the reality: www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...
Because turning against them got us here. We've turned into a fascist country because people like you have gotten voters to turn on the democrats and either not vote or vote for Trump.
Did you not fucking read I KNOCKED DOORS FOR HILLARY FUCKING CLINTON She GOT FUCKING TRUMP NOMINATED BECAUSE SHE KNEW HE COULD NOT WIN Which one of us do you blame ? *ME* Fucking purple MAGA piece of shit
I blame Trump and the GOP for the mess we're in and I blame social media for spreading shit against the dems to divide voters.
Nobody divided voters more than the dems If you would have knocked doors you would have known how people felt about Hillary ( not good ) I assure you Biden and Harris did more to suppress the vote in an afternoon than I could do in an entire lifetime if I was trying. Get some standards.
You might have knocked on doors but here you are on social media claiming the democrats are just as bad as the GOP. That turns voters off of voting and of voting for dems.
😂 I AM OMNIPOTENT FEAR ME !! APPEASE ME LEST I COST THE MULTIBILLION DOLLAR PARTY ANOTHER ELECTION Be fucking serious. They put voters off. *THEY* do I’m just some schmuck online not a millionaire nor in the elite
lmao he had a whole term to prosecute. SCOTUS didn't make Biden keep on his do-nothing AG
Trump WAS prosecuted and SCOTUS & Cannon protected him! Did you sleep through that?
that decision also said Biden could do whatever he wanted as president. official acts, right? why didn't Biden take care of that?
Because SCOTUS gets to decide what is an official act. They will rule anything a GOP POTUS does is official and anything a dem POTUS does is a crime. Also, Biden is a good person and not a dictator.
Yeah, we're gonna disagree on that last part. he turned off free covid vaccines and offered Israel all the help they could ever want pulverizing Gaza.
They ran out of funding for the free COVID vaccines. www.google.com/amp/s/thehil...
1. Israel is an ally. 2. They were attacked. So, I understand why we helped them initially but, I agree, we should have stopped. 3. Palestinians are much worse off now, with Trump. He posted a video of his Trump property takeover of Gaza FFS.
did you forget about when he tried to pass a border bill worse than anything from Trump 1 and also ASKED TRUMP to help him whip Republicans votes for it?
Do you remember when the GOP refused to vote on funding unless a border fix was included? Do you know how to get bills passed? You COMPROMISE! www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...
I will neber forget Susan Sarandon complaining about HRC. Where is she by the way? Oh living her best life with her millions making movies, making Nonnas. Fuck her!!
lol @deewithnumbers.bsky.social You should get an Onlyfans cause you are showing your WHOLE ass here
Where is HRC?
Libs have nothing left but petty grudges, you hate to see it folks
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Here you go
Puritan leftists did help get ya’ll where you are, that’s for sure.
"Puritan leftists" meaning what? What were they "puritans" about?
The ones that constantly check other left-leaning people for their purity on various issues. It usually comes-down to someone not being communist/radical/choose-the-right-side-in-foreign-conflicts (e.g. supporting Ukraine = bad) enough. “Libs get the bullet too” types.
Hmmm I don't think people were very opposed to Democrats supporting Ukraine, I think you might be omitting a pretty big factor here...
Communists and a lot of similar purity leftists absolutely supported and support Russia still. They are very much “America bad” types and just take issue with everything and anything the US does. Or did we forget Hasan Piker exists (the Tucker Carlson of the left).
I really don't think there's any data that suggests that is an influential wing of the electorate, just a few wing nuts. However, there is a lot of polling data that shows Dems being pro-IDF caused a major rift between Dem candidates and their voters.
In the US the Democratic Party is a big tent, or was... Too many people demanding for it to cater to their personal wants/causes in explicit terms in ways that would be problematic for other groups in the tent.
Most of that big tent wants the US to stop sending aid to Israel and the party refuses to even acknowledge that as a possibility
Did not voting, voting third party, or voting for trump change that?
Sounds like the people who didn't think Hillary was a good candidate were proven right. The party should have backed a more popular candidate instead.
Then you probably should have said something about the Genocide because mass slaughter of human beings is kind of a deal breaker for a significant number of people whom you needed to vote with you.
The genocide, protecting trans people and immigrants, not being hyper pro-fracking or police or wanting to command the「 most lethal fighting force in the world 」and maybe get a little silly and demand something about universal healthcare or education or improving social safety nets and and and
Your own party didn't treat the SC as an important issue, and they got completely outplayed despite having three of the last four presidential terms to work with. You're lucky that Clinton lost since it lets you blame voters for your party's complacence and incompetence
They also kept abortion in limbo for half a century because it was fun and easy to run on And then they had a president who was publicly for the fucking Hyde Amendment till 2019 and said he didn’t want to politicise the court *AFTER* Dobbs and said「 Roe went too far 」 in 2024
Do you have anything better to do than relitigate the 2016 democratic primary again ?
Is it so hard to believe that while we're watching the fucking country collapse we might talk about where things went wrong
Spot on, i appreicate some folks had real & sincere interests and that alarmist talk some of us had were dismissed because some thought "it couldn't happen here". But it has. Some of those same people STILL do not get it. That is akin to colluding with the enemy.
Colluding with the enemy, they voted for Trump in 2016 and 2024.
In fairness, many simply sat the election out, or voted for some obscure 3rd party candidate. It's important to remember that since the point is to recruit everyone, get ALL hands on deck this time. It may be our last chance. IF they did, or stood by, we should welcome them into the fold.
I would further expect this to be prompted by protest demonstrations in DC over the holiday week, most likely "spiked" by MAGA mercenaries & a motley (mostly disposable) crew of 3%'ers, Proud Boys, etc. that will be used to "justify" the takeover.
What evidence would they like to see? Rather, what NEW AND ADDITIONAL evidence can I provide?
Yep
Obama had 8 years to do some good for the country. Instead him & Biden worked across the aisle to ruin every good idea he had, pass every bad idea he had, just for them to screw him on his judge pick. All while doing nothing to codify Roe or scale back Bush era over-reaches. But blame the left.
Point is, the centrists who ignore and work to undermine the left and then pretend to be victim to their yelling, have only themselves to blame when they meet with Henry Kissenger or campaign with Liz Chaney then lose the god damn election.
Just gonna say one thing about this. Most of the country isn't BlueSky..most of the country is in fact centrist/right leaning. I don't like it but that's the reality. Some leftist candidates would work great in cities and a few other areas, most of the time you're gonna have to tack middle
The reason Obama didn't do those things or the current dems are doing absolutely nothing to stop Trump is because the main Dem strategy is being the lesser of the two evils. Unfortunately that's not enough. You actually have to activate people to work for you, not just pay for celebrity endorsements
lol. They needed a cheerleader to get them to save themselves? So, they are all dumb children?
Yeah she can write an excellent dissent. Really helpful.
We could have had three more just like her. But HRC wasn't Bernie, so...
I voted for Hillary, goofball. It’s not my fault she ran a shitty campaign.
Don't apologize for the Berners. Her campaign was fine.
She failed to campaign in Michigan and Wisconsin and managed to lose to Donald Trump. Her campaign was unequivocally disastrous.
Sounds like HRC should have run on something popular like Medicare For All if she wanted the same popular support Bernie got.
Remember when Obama tried to get this McConnell-recommended lifelong Republican onto the Supreme Court just to avoid a fight with McConnell over confirmations, but then McConnell gave him a fight anyway and effortlessly won because Obama gave up immediately?
Again, "all y'all" don't seem to know how the government works...or did. He put forth the nomination. That is the requirement per the Constitution. (Have you read it?) Once that nomination is made, it is 100% in the Senate's hands. What "fight" did you want?
You've tried nothing and you're all out of ideas, huh? How about holding rallies in the key districts responsible for keeping those Senators in their seats? How about at least calling them and their obstruction out by name? How about trying literally anything? Obama clearly failed badly here.
the Constitution actually only says the Senate gives its recommendation on nominations. Obama never tried recess appointments or simply pushing his nominations through on the basis that a recommendation is just advice, not the decision. don't gaslight people. I remember the discourse back then.
this is why Republicans get what they want even when they're the minority. Democrats are simply pussies or actually like Republican policy. get a grip and live in reality.
I agree to an extent. Dems play by the rules...Reps don't. Gonna be intetesting to see if Newsom starts making waves.
After all that, the American public flat out failed to hold the Republicans in the Senate accountable for not doing their job and allowed them to retain control.
Obama let it go, didn't fight for it, or anything else really. His inaction signaled that it wasn't an important issue and so voters followed his lead. He was passive about it, so they were passive. Blaming voters for leadership failures is about as politically counterproductive as you can get.
So no accountability for voters. It's not the American electorate at fault here, it's the (lack of) campaign speeches and rallies (?) No. Anyone with half a brain saw what Trump stood for in 2016 and didn't need rallies.
maybe if you reached across the aisle and compromised you wouldn't have depressed the vote so much
Why didn't the Democrats fight when Mitch stole a Supreme Court pick from Obama? If anything was worth shutting down the government for it's that. That's why Democrats lost states like mine. Because they don't fight.
Probably should’ve been screaming at RBG to retire, too.
If at all .. this pressumes there will be elections again.
LET IT BURN!🔥🔥 250yrs OF COLONIZATION, DICTATORSHIPS, THEFT, MURDER HAVE FINALLY CAUGHT UP. LET IT BURN! LET ROME BURN TO THE FUCKING GROUND! It deserves no less after all the pain it has caused.
They won’t fix it, but they’ll help
Yes indeed
10 million Americans marching on Washington might speed things up. Shut down the economy.
Shutting down the economy will HURT US a lot more than THEM so I don't think that's a good idea! It likely will have NO LASTING affect on our current Govt because they DON'T GIVE a DAMN about US! They ONLY care about THEIR POWER & MONEY!
A general strike is what I meant. I think his supporters are starting to turn against him, that might accelerate things.
Well maybe or they would end blaming the people boycotting for the economy downturn! Trump IS going to CRASH the economy before this year is out! The effects of the the tariffs are going to start kicking in by the end of the summer as inventories are depleted!
I've always said this but Americans lack the will to shut things down.
Republicans are acting just the way they would if they knew they wouldn't have to face voters in 2026.
And for all the trade deals that were originally scuttled by Trump; countries like Canada and Mexico as well as the EU and China, are signing new deals with new partners. Once Trump has gone, there seems no way back for the US without those countries reneging on their new deals. Talk about SCREWED!
We are going elsewhere because you elected him TWICE. You did not learn from the first presidency. You have demonstrated that you cannot be trusted.
More than ever👇🏼🫣 youtu.be/Zu0hh7eI4_A?...
I hadn’t heard that in a long time - watched the entire video. I lived during that 😰period - it’s quite the anthem.
it‘s not just - about - your country. it‘s - about - the whole world. every single country and its society. deeply effed up because of your guy. america still hasn‘t understood what it let happen…
2 generations
The American Ideal is dead! We will NEVER become the country we thought we were as long as $$ buys policy.
Without seismic upheaval I'd put it at around 50 years. Possibly longer once China becomes the world's largest economy.
I think you're correct Then again it may be longer, understanding the lack of education in 'merikkka.
You think we can service our dept as a fascist country? Not likely
Sort term for long term need the No Kings protests or the like to keep momentum going
I don't think we're going to see anything familiar for awhile. What this has done is so bad and they will, sadly, get away with a lot of it. We'll rebuild and hold accountable who we can. Hate will relocate and start again. Then in another forty years something somewhere will pop up.
Can confirm
Yes but ‘26 and ‘28 can be a start.
There must be reprisals. Jail time. SCOTUS impeachment. Stricter laws contributions.
And people will not be patient to fix it and will jump on the next Caligula demagogue….
The assumption that elections will Unelect Trump is mind-blowing.
Perhaps a second civil war!
When Amy Coney-Barrett was appointed in 2020 to the bench I estimated that it would take 50 years for US to recover back to a fair democracy. The writing was on the wall, but it has turned out so much worse than I imagined. Presidential and Republican Corruption is normal and cruelty is their game.
I know a lot of STUPID people voted for Trump but Musk MADE SURE Trump WON! There's NO WAY he spent $277 million on a long shot, he KNEW how to MAKE it a SURE investment & he DID! He even admitted Trump wouldn't be in office if not for HIM! Trump bragged about Musk KNOWING those voting machines!
Russ Vought, a Christian nationalist ghoul Trump nominated to run the OMB. Vought, in past years, especially in his leadership of Project 2025, he has revealed himself as a terrifying ideologue fixated on a fantasy of destroying the United States in order to rebuild it as a Christian theocracy.
We're screwed!
Believe it.
How the hell do we get out of this!?!
Drastic times call for drastic measures! You will face a time when public protest means 50 % or more of Americans strike and the states challenge federal power. I know, sounds like civil war. The american experiment in democracy is over. It failed! You can blame greed and citizens United. 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦
You're not wrong...😪
I've been studying these nationalist bastards for quite a while.
I'm well aware. That was the plan all along, to destroy the government. It's too late. They have everything they want now. The supreme court caved.
We don't. The original sin was failing to send trump to prison for the rest of his life," for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020. He should have been charged and jailed, period.
Absolutely!
Gilead. 💔
I want you all to know that we are beyond the point of wondering if the United States is becoming a fascist dictatorship. It is. We are in the midst of a hostile takeover by white supremacist and Christian nationalist forces. There is no point in expressing disbelief about this. It is happening.
Project 2025:Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving trump unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt Americans www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...
Russ Vought: key Project 2025 figure set to continue Trump cuts after Musk exit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He's the most dangerous of all the nationalist.
Russ Vought wants to make Congress obsolete Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget refused to answer questions about his chilling vision for an even more powerful White House. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Project2025.observer Sure wish there was a god damn deep state right about now, they have to take care of some business
Need to outlaw Rethugglikkkan so protect Democracy
The decline began in 1980
It started in 1787
Take it back a few years. It started under Nixon and got worse under Reagan.
The attacks on the media began under Nixon but, Nixon actually read and had some vision. If he wasn’t paranoid, history would treat him much more kindly.
Plus, he had his “Southern Strategy” that turned the Dixiecrats to Republicans. He courted the segregationists.
To be fair, the Dixiecrats were deeply conservative and were always going to leave the Democratic party after the 60's. You can't give Nixon credit for that. And no, the decay really started for real in the 90's with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
I trace it back to Reagan with an attack on workers, with their support. Gingrich had a major impact, when he had Republicans back to their districts on weekends. Friendships between the parties deteriorated then.
Then add in Tom Delay with pushing the gerrymandering.
The culture of grievance and conspiratorial thinking in the Republican party started with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. It was non-existent previously. This is what led us directly to right-wing populism.
Or brought it out from under the rocks where it always was.
Reagan was more of the same corruption that had always existed in American politics. Show me an era when it was benign. There was never fascism against their own population, however. This is the new phenomenon.
It was also Reagan’s friendly “Well…we can’t help everyone who chooses to live on the street,” and the demonization of welfare Queens driving Cadillacs. Fuck him.
He also worked with his buddy Kaiser to allow hospitals to be for profit. Prior to that, hospitals were not for profit. The change ushered in the rise in hospital costs that caused the healthcare system to start to collapse.
ain’t no way y’all giving NIXON any kind of positive recognition 😭 this is exactly why we’re where we’re at now
As much as I despised Nixon, he deserves credit for environmental protection. Seeing everything in black and white, only drives people from one’s causes.
He does. He was a crook and an a-hole, but he was forward thinking on the environment and in opening relations with China.
It's all relative though. You know it's bad when fucking NIXON is starting to look good. 🤷🏻♀️
moral relativism fallacy / red herring 😭 comparing nixon to a worse actor doesn’t mitigate the objective wrongness
And no offense, but if your picture is really you, you aren’t old enough to remember what it was like before the creation of the EPA. It was a major breakthrough for environmentalist to get it passed and signed. I remember being in central Illinois and watching smog roll down from Chicago…140 miles.
It doesn’t, but when you consider that the EPA rules that trump is rolling back started under Nixon, it makes you go hummmmmm.
Correct
Certainly nothing will be fixed if “establishment” Democrats get in. And no one will be punished for their criminality whilst in government
I think the important words you said are “at least”.
And that’s before Taco replaces Alito and Uncle Clarence with younger versions of themselves.
Americans are seemingly inherently incapable of understanding this. We've created generations of damage and mistrust. And until we realize it, the problem will get worse and harder to fix. I'm not sure we truly can anymore.
I have no trust that my fellow Americans are decent people anymore. They’ve shown me they are provably deranged. Any unity we had is fractured and shattered.
But, We, the People, will take that walk & we shall do it with purpose & vigor!
If the walk wasnt taken after J6 it wont be taken at all.
It will be taken. It is being taken. We shall not relent!
there's a quicker way out
My poor kids are so freaken screwed.. I am so sad.
It’s going to get far worse. Most people don’t know it yet. Most haven’t been impacted besides some higher priced items in the stores. The pain and loss is coming.
At 67, I won’t see the Trump damage fixed in my lifetime. Trump’s legacy will be that history books will show for the rest of eternity, that Trump was THE WORST president ever. The Trump name will forever be stained
History is written by the rotten.
Trump’s name has been stained for decades. We’ll get the country back.
I'm 67 as well and pretty pissed off about it.
Rebuilding (assuming we get through this) is going to be a blast, though. It will be a heady time. I look forward to building the things we never had the motivation to build before, plus yeeting magas to the sun to boot.
Are you assuming the rw will just Go away ?
Oh, Waj. We're barely over the precipice. There's so far to fall. So, yeah, AT LEAST a generation. I expect far more.
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And that's assuming some type of voting system will be in place...which is questionable.
And if everything isn't fixed instantly, they'll be like hey, let's give control back to those lying Christofascist Nazis that got us into this mess yet again!! Because so many Americans are so fucking stupid.
When I liked this, I thought you were referring to the UK. Maybe we can resolve our difficulties in less than a generation - but I do not have much confidence. As for the U.S: yes, at least a generation. 😢
During the election people asked why I was voting for Kamala if I don't agree with her policies. My response was that anything I don't agree with can be undone in 4 years, Trumps policies will take generations. They laughed at me and called me many not so polite names. Well "I Told ya so!!!"
What type of people laughed at you ? Swing voters or ??
The next president needs to be able to hit the ground surrounded with people to replace ALL the 🤡 loyalist
Indeed! The damage done to the government and economy is extensive. And it will take decades to fully recover respect on the world stage. open.substack.com/pub/noelkeit...
Long walk or death march?
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My guess is it also will be an extraordinarily bloody one. What emerges may not be the same political entity as the United States of America.
We need a new party.
Yup, unfortunately correct.
John Roberts and the other five are to blame, more than anyone except the rich that own them.
No. A system that allowed a handful of people to have such power, and a populace that sleepwalked into tyranny -- that is where the real blame lies.
Without massive changes to infrastructure of US Government, Fascist Republicans will rule for rest of century. SCT is run by 6 Fascists, who distort Constitution and rig elections for Republicans ; Senate and Presidency are anti/ democratic /represents minority of voters & House is gerrymandered
It's gone from decades of harm to generational harm under #Taco.
I cannot disagree. There are consequences for everything.
Agreed...The elections will help but will not be magic...
Or free and fair.
My 19 year old son is well aware. So sad.
I completely agree with you. I have a 25 year old daughter who is directly impacted by this and will be for a long, long time. I have a secret heartbreak when I realize at 61, it seems rather unlikely I will be around to see the real change happen. It truly breaks my heart.
I’m exactly here! 23 year old who has fewer right than me, only knows chaos and division, see racism and misogyny. She doesn’t want kids.
And, at this point, it kind of makes sense. I keep thinking about everything HRC had said in 2016. It was absolutely all true. Absolutely gutting.
Sadly my 30 yo niece refuse to have kids due to the horrific nature of the foreseeable future. -US politics -Poor outlook on US economy -Global de-population -Global warming
Sadly? No. Smart girl.
Right?
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Let’s practice walking side by side.
A full rebuild
SOME people have. Could y'all (not just you, that means) quit making these blanket statements that ignore the obvious statements of people *in this very space*? Some people HAVE taken stock of the damage--clearly you think YOU have, and you are part of people.
so very very true
Agreed 💯
Some things simply can’t be fixed.
For context, those of us in our 30s won't see progress akin to 10 yrs ago until we're in our 70s. Millennials and gen z got royally fucked 👍.
Assuming we get to vote in 26 or 28 without a revolution.
You know evil dictators don’t have fair elections right?
We knew that a few days after Trump took office.
Some of us knew back in 15-16. But you wouldn't listen to the ANTIfacists, would you? You knew better.
I see…you’re being optimistic and I applaud you for it. I…on the other hand, see the many traitors that will continue to gut this nation from within, while keeping a semblance of normalcy for those that are comfortable in their complacency.
Support a General Strike. Money is the only thing they care about. generalstrikeus.com
I’m just hoping there will be free and fair elections going forward. There is no guarantee of that! But should the Dems prevail in’26? Well, we gotta start somewhere.
Agree
Right—minimum one gen.
I'm 74. Can't see things fixed in my lifetime.
Same for me!
I’m 43, and I don’t see America fixed in my 10 year old’s lifetime. maga has destroyed 70 years of civilization because it tried to include Black, Brown, and Feminine people.
67, yep... Imma stop here because I'm pissed 🤟😎
MEDICARE: We and 5 generations brown born and raised paid into social security and yup we want all our benefits like the White folks getting!
I have thought a lot about your country. The tribalism is so entrenched and the manipulaton of big money powers is so tough to fight that I see no other solution than breaking your country up. I dont see another solution. If you see one please share it.
I have similar concerns. But the red/blue state concept is misleading because of gerrymandering, so secession would bring no peace. Blue states have lots of red enclaves and vice versa.
I think about it daily.
Multiple times a day.
I agree, but am going to keep fighting for my grown kids & soon-to-be-born granddaughter 💪💙
Long walk? The US needs a full-on reconstruction and that's only gonna come after the right side wins a second civil war and doesn't bottle out after.
Neocons destroy everything, everywhere. The democrats can mot protect anything, anyone, not even themselves.
sadly I agree! We can still save what we can save by pushing back. We cant give up!
Or a dramatic change
1931, sorry.
And if Republicans cheat, like I fully expect them to do, and if People don’t wake-up and realize that the SC is corrupt and won’t save us, then America will fall into the waste bin of failed countries, where bigotry, racism and bastardized religion, ended it all. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited
If?
When Biden won, I felt the US was saved from the precipice of becoming a failed petrostate. And then Americans voted for him again after literally failing to overthrow an election. You're not heading there, you are there. Question is how you get out.
Indeed!
No.
Americans can regain their republic. France has suffered far worse, including defeat and occupation by real Nazis from 1940 to 1945. The French are now on their 5th constitution.
I believe the US Constitution is the oldest in the world right now.
Somehow, this doesn’t make me feel better. How much suffering will we have to endure, how many ppl will die?
People are dying every day because healthcare is reserved for the rich. It will get worse. Perhaps someday America will be wealthy enough to provide healthcare to everyone like all other civilized countries do.
Lots. Get ready.
Not as much or as many if we tirelessly keep up the work we're beginning now for the remainder of a whole decade.
I fight because I know no other way but not because I think there is any hope. I am old and won’t live long enough to see the end of this. I will die in the wilderness before reaching the promised land. Many of us will. Today is a hard day.
That you fight on shows that you still do have hope, even if not for yourself and your peers.
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It won’t get fixed within my lifetime.The people forgot why you don’t elect crazies to the presidency, even if it’s tempting because of their promises to “change the system.” Often you find out the hard way why the system was there in the first place and why it’s better to have it than not.
Are voting rights God given, or are they like our other rights, depended on an evil white man?
Looooooooooooooong walk
From Babylon 5, G'Kar speaks of what G'Quan wrote. There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair.
Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.
No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born…in pain.
More or less at least 8 years of Fascism in America.
It is going to be more than a long walk. Some things will never repair or heal from the damage.
What kind of take would you call this?
What gets me is how a big chunk of the generation that produced songs like "Get Together" mutated into Fox viewers and Trumpers. Time for some Sister Souljah music, instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGx...
Which was what I said in 2001-2 when we invaded Iraq. Better make it two generations.
As long as corporate Democrats are still in play, this’ll never be fixed even if they win. And nevermind the fact that this Supreme Court will reverse anything that will miraculously get passed for the benefit of regular people, anyway.
It's a civil war. We're paying the price for the failure of Reconstruction.
This is absolutely true. The failure of Reconstruction (brought to you by the US Presidency) has doomed us.
This is correct. People don't want to admit it yet, but this is where we are at. Pay attention and organize accordingly.
Trump/GOP/MAGA have no intentions of letting people who don’t agree with them vote. It will be a miracle if we ever get to vote again.
Even if he drops dead today (God willing), he and all those who have refused to hold him accountable have done so much harm to this country. How in the world can the Bush² years seem nostalgic? Heck, I'd even opt for Reagan now. They were horrible, but not destroy the US from inside terrible.
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All of that led right to where we are.
Potentially unpopular belief: they were not so horrible, actually. It was easy for some to see them as horrible when we collectively lacked the frame of reference for what "truly utterly horrible for the country" looked like that we have now.
(Being too far to the Left also helped that view, but don't expect most of these people to learn anything from that 😒).
All of those and particularly Nixon led to Trumpism. The time machine would be best used taking out someone like Joseph McCarthy or Richard Nixon and seeing history unfold.
What’s scary is they are literally firing all the people who have the most knowledge and experience… in all areas of our government and life saving government programs. Very scary.
But we must start by voting for democrats only in all elections.
Andrew Cuomo joins high-powered legal team to defend Netanyahu against ICC share.google/F5PYsl0KSZud...
To all foreign regimes who chant “death to America” and those domestic terrorists chanting “end ‘the’ deep state” - congrats! You got your wish without a single bomb. America shot America, first in the foot (electing mobster DJT) and then through the heart (corrupt SCOTUS). Awaiting Coroner report…
Just wait till he causes full scale war here~~
I think you’d be surprised at the resilience of the American people. We know a shit show when we see one. 2026 will be a good first step at clawing back our democracy.
This is how authoritarianism works.
But 2026 and 2028 MUST be the beginning of healing this country. We need to gain back ethics with Democrats/Independents in Congress to uphold our laws and dependable voters who also want to work to heal our country!
This won't be fixed democratically.
At 72, the chances that I will be here to see America healed are nearly gone. I hope America survives. But my thoughts are against it happening.
Facts spoken here. ⬆️
Joe would have been the fix if Kamala had been elected. Now Trump 2.0 is worse than Trump 1.0.
In the best case scenario, it will take decades to undo all the damage done As for me, I will never forget and I will never forgive
The blue states could leave the union so we don’t have to suffer and die. We need to leave the hate.
And we will do the work. If everyone works together.
A lotta people will die early, in the meantime.
AT LEAST.
Imagine knowing this and then having to watch a charismatic Democrat come along next who doesn’t fix anything and instead only makes it all permanent and expands upon it while half the population goes on an extended nap. Sounds wild but it happened from Bush to Obama and has gone on ever since.
Exactly. Fascism has been growing for decades, we just had no clue despite many sounding the alarm. It was slower and not as "in our face" but always growing.
Every dem president since Clinton has helped creep the fascism along. Not as fast or in your face as the republicans, but they helped. Until we realize we are pretty much on our own, things get worse. Most Dem leaders are fine with this and that’s why they aren’t mounting an effective opposition
Rough estimates by experts (not me) predict that these 4 years will take generations to undue. Sadly, I can absolutely believe that 😔