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If we withdraw into our grief and abandon those most threatened by Trump’s win, history will never forgive us. By D.D. Guttenplan.
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Paint me as dumb, but I just don't think Armageddon is upon us. A rude awakening no doubt. Unless he ascends to dictatorship, there is enough of a system in place to weather an abusive user. He may even surprise people.
I’m all for unity. One Interior Secretary Sarah Palin, Secretary of State John Bolton, Surgeon General Ben Carson, or Attorney General Rudy Giuliani here or there isn’t going to drive me to distraction. We’ve had retarded leaders before. Know-Nothing Republicans or the Confederate Tea Partiers on the Potomac, on the other hand, are going to get some push back. Ain’t only me. We had Sherman’s March once, and we will again, if it comes to that.
OK, maybe Armageddon is upon us!
Restoring segregation, ethnic internment, forced relocations, curfews, plenty of things seem plausible when a enigmatic, grabby racist tycoon sweeps into power seemingly soon to take control of every branch of government.
Me, I don't think Trump will want to restore the Confederacy, but then I didn't think Chief Justice Roberts would, either, and look what he's managed to do in a short while.
Hard to know what to take for granted and what not. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised with only mild batshit craziness, but it's very easy to imagine some dealbreakers.
True, I mean we did that to the Japanese under that despot Roosevelt.
American history is much richer than is taught in schools. Go figure. Internment isn't something that only happened to the Japanese or only under one administration. If you were to guess what's next based on what's not taught in U.S. schools, but has ample precedent in U.S. history nonetheless, you'd be forgiven for anticipating some dark shit.
You take charge of watching for reassuring signs Trump believes in modern, pluralistic civil society with basic values like equality under the law, universal suffrage, national parks and the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Me, I might be looking more for whether, as American caesar, he'll be claiming jus primae noctis.
That's not fair, you get to look for all the juicy bits.
It's already started, city to city,
burn baby burn!
Sure. In your head, when you wrote that, I'll bet that you thought it sounded ominous, kind of foreboding, 'clued-in to the jive.' Gotta tell you, from the other side of the site, it comes off maybe a little bit more creepy, Turner Diaries, Know-Nothing and no-war-but-race-war than you meant. Unless it didn't. Whatever the case, you think comments like that help somehow?