What's happening now is more like you're seeing two trains about to run straight into each other, which you know is bad, but you're powerless to stop it. Not only did we vote for Trump, giving him the popular vote after the SCOTUS made the president de facto immune from criminal prosecution; we voted for a Republican Congress, too. They …
What's happening now is more like you're seeing two trains about to run straight into each other, which you know is bad, but you're powerless to stop it. Not only did we vote for Trump, giving him the popular vote after the SCOTUS made the president de facto immune from criminal prosecution; we voted for a Republican Congress, too. They already own the Supreme Court. We are in a situation where this is going down whether we like it or not, and we cannot do anything about it. The only thing that stops this is Trump going away or Republicans putting country over party, and no amount of cajoling or shaming from Democrats is going to bring about any of that; in our country's sorry state, it may even be counterproductive.
This is democracy at work, and if we're lucky, there will be a democracy after this, and the voters will have learned from their mistakes. But I have little optimism.
What's happening now is more like you're seeing two trains about to run straight into each other, which you know is bad, but you're powerless to stop it. Not only did we vote for Trump, giving him the popular vote after the SCOTUS made the president de facto immune from criminal prosecution; we voted for a Republican Congress, too. They already own the Supreme Court. We are in a situation where this is going down whether we like it or not, and we cannot do anything about it. The only thing that stops this is Trump going away or Republicans putting country over party, and no amount of cajoling or shaming from Democrats is going to bring about any of that; in our country's sorry state, it may even be counterproductive.
This is democracy at work, and if we're lucky, there will be a democracy after this, and the voters will have learned from their mistakes. But I have little optimism.