Worse days are ahead. So are better ones
Worse days are ahead. So are better ones
A battle has been lost in a great cause that has broken many hearts, deeply disillusioned others, and shattered the perception of America all over the world.
There are 725 days until the midterm elections and MAGA’s first referendum. Every second will be needed to excavate the ruins, level the ground, pour a foundation and start building again. No rational person can look at the results through the prism of this chart shared by my friend
over at So What, and not appreciate the repudiation of the Biden presidency and the Democratic Party:
It raises a question, which must be put forward with no pity: what is it about the Democratic Party of Joe Biden that the country found so repugnant that they would not just hand the presidency to Trump, but give him a decisive mandate? The political failure is beyond epic. There is nothing comparable in American history.
During the days ahead, The Warning will speak directly to the failures and hypocrisies that have so deeply endangered our country. The brutal days ahead did not have to be, but now they are here, and they must be faced. We can only move forward if we learn from them.
The vast and ludicrous “democracy” grift industry, which has rooted itself like black mold in America’s political firmament and is as grotesque as MAGA, needs to be talked about.
Chuck Schumer, James Clyburn, and every Democratic geriatric who is gripping political power like a corpse holding on, needs to go. This needs to be talked about.
What Joe and Jill Biden did to the country, with the help of Anita Dunn, Steve Ricchetti, Bob Bauer, Mike Donilon and a few others, needs to be talked about. The gaslighting of the country about the president’s fitness and condition ceded honesty as an issue to Trump, burdened Kamala Harris, and denied Democratic voters the chance to vote for a candidate who could defeat Trump. This must be talked about.
The American media has functioned as Trump’s indispensable, co-dependent and abused spouse for nine years. The result is a collapse of trust between the American people and reality, along with the absolute obliteration of the reputations of most media organizations, though not yet all journalists. This needs to be talked about.
When Trump looks out at the press pool covering him, the simple truth is that he couldn’t have done it without them. He doesn’t want to shoot them. He wants to keep working with them everyday for the rest of his life because he knows who the violin is in the relationship and he loves to play it.
All of these things can wait.
We have lost an election, not the country. The question about who we are as a country will never be settled in these United States because America is always in a state of becoming. For much of my life, I liked what America was and was becoming. Now, not so much, but the point is that this moment is fleeting. It may not seem like it, but Trump’s apogee will be as fleeting as the moment, and then down he comes. What we will become along the way is a mystery, but somewhere out there is the mountaintop from which King prophesied about the just society. We will reach it, someday.
For now, let’s embrace an old ethos, which is that if trouble must come, let it be in our day and time, not in that of our children.
Let us remember to make “good trouble” as we oppose the coming assault on our values, laws, institutions, fellow citizens, and the rule of law. For awhile, Trump will roll forward, propelled by zeal, arrogance and victory, but then the road will get muddy and his wheels will get stuck.
Donald Trump is every bit as dangerous as I have warned. What I have warned about will largely happen, and it will be terrible, but it need not be permanent.
Remember that.
Fight on.
Hang tough.
Worse days are ahead. So are better ones.
No matter what, do not be afraid of MAGA or Trump.
Americans don’t tremble when they see a dime-store Mussolini win an election. They take a look in the mirror and get on with it.
Let’s do that.
Honestly, Steve, I'm so deflated right now. I don't know if I care. America is not a good and great nation. America is a nation filled with willfully, ignorant racists misogynists, and fascists. I know you can look at what Germany and Japan became after World War II, but they were wholey and completely Militarily defeated. I fear the sickness that has taken hold of the United States has always been with us. It's the Confederacy 2.0, that we fought and bled to fefeat in the Civil War that we never fully destroyed. People voted for Tammy Baldwin, and Rubin Gallegos and Trump and that tells me Americans do not pay attention and do not have the critical thinking skills to make rational choices. Perhaps it's always been this way and the only reason Obama waselected and reelected is because of his charisma.
I guess I see all of this as the logical evolution of Reaganomics. We destroyed the unions, we started unraveling public education, and we enabled a new class of elite MBAs to take over American business and yielded our economy to mergers acquisitions. It was the beginning of a massive shift of wealth from the middle class to the top 10% and it seems to have destroyed the foundation of America that was built on the New Deal - ehich the conservatives in this country have been trying to kill ever since it was enacted, and now seemed to have succeeded.
I was born in 1961 at the end of the baby boom. I'm now 63 and I've approached every single major turning point in my life seeing expectations of what would be available to me drop off a cliff. It's like I followed an infestation of locusts that have consumed everything in their path. And now that will be the Social Security and Medicare I've paid into for 50 years.
I also have a 19-year-old daughter who Is the joy of my life and I literally thought to myself when it was clear Trump would win, if I'd made a mistake bringing her into this world. I raised her to be decent and empathetic, to value truth and integrity, and be the best that she can be believing this would set her on a path for a happy, successful and fulfilling life. She is devastated and I don't know what to tell her.
Why is Joe Biden so unpopular?? I agree on Gaza and high prices but what else besides an hostile press has he done?
Americans are much better off than 4 or 8 years ago, the economy is doing better than ever, wages are up, oil prices are down. 92% have healthcare, the infrastructure bill/Chip and science act/16 million new jobs created/restored the EPA cleaned up our rivers and streams /restored OSHA/student loan relieve. High prices come from Trump's billionaire friends by way of price gouging who will get another 2 trillion dollar tax cut from Trump while the middle class gets nothing.