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IzzaNuDay

(1,241 posts)
4. I think we're closer to the end of democracy
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:42 PM
Wednesday

Only We the People can save ourselves. But are we willing to do that?

bucolic_frolic

(54,075 posts)
7. No, the cray-cray has to burn itself out. These times remind me of
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:47 PM
Wednesday

historical insanities. The Black Death uprooted everything and included the Flagellists I think they were called. Purifying towns for sin by thrashing their own backs to the point of bleeding.

Also the Salem Witch Trials.

If you can separate people from the reality they see, they will do or say anything you want. That's what we've been through, from Q-Anon to J6-was-a-tourist holiday.

We as Democrats are not generating sufficient mental and political energy. We want and live normal. We need Space Aliens on our side, coming to rescue us.

JCMach1

(29,094 posts)
13. It won't burn out. It will have to be actively destroyed
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:56 PM
Wednesday

There is no going back to the old order.

I am very, very pessimistic about the next 3 years.

moondust

(21,220 posts)
8. What will rein them in?
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:47 PM
Wednesday

Two things you don't even want to consider doing for a convicted felon addicted to a lust for power and wealth:

1. Grant him any kind of "immunity."

2. Give him the power to pardon those who support his tyrannical behavior.

Hey Joe

(416 posts)
11. Nah, it will only get worse at a quicker pace
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:53 PM
Wednesday

Now they are casually murdering citizens and invading foreign countries while threatening to do even more.
This administration has acquired a taste for blood as well as ill gotten wealth and they won’t stop by their own will.
Extremely troubling times I never thought I would witness.

RockRaven

(18,739 posts)
12. Americans repeatedly chose to destroy this country. They will keep making that choice
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 04:55 PM
Wednesday

until it is done, apparently.

Johonny

(25,506 posts)
14. Trump has never made anyones life better
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 05:07 PM
Wednesday

But his own. He don't give fuck about us. Not one fuck.

wcmagumba

(5,660 posts)
15. Very true, but I don't think he can make his life better, TSF is consumed by his own misery and wants all of us the same
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 05:15 PM
Wednesday

delisen

(7,228 posts)
16. As Churchill said, we are at the end of the beginning
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:49 PM
Wednesday

What they have: money , power and a dying malevolent leader with a punk malevolent leader waiting in the wings.

What we have: patience which has now evaporated and is being replaced by the righteous anger of the peoples for whom Justice is not a toy but a defining principle of life. They will be crushed.

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