These aren't the worst days of the Republic but they are the most vulgar.

[grantcart]

Vietnam, the McCarthy Era, World Wars, Japanese Internment, Jim Crow, the Civil War, two hundred years of aggressive slavery and the genocide of Native Americans are but a few of the times where the Republic suffered more and/or suffered more.

But it has never been this vulgar or vain.


So while we have seen greater evil by scale in terms of the number of lives and the amount of suffering by individuals we have never seen this level of degradation of spirit, mind numbing banality and trivialization of American values.

In five days we have witnessed more political violence combined than in decades.

1) Gregory Bush tries to enter the predominately African American First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown but the doors were locked. He runs to the store to start shooting random blacks and fortunately is stopped by a good Samaritan who is armed and starts shooting at him.

2) Cesar Sayoc mails 14 IEDs and is stopped by outstanding law enforcement action.

3) Robert Bowers murders 11 unarmed synagogue members because he thinks that they are funding the caravan that is going to come up and destroy "his people". Within minutes of his tweeting "screw your optics I am going in" and discharging the first round law enforcement was there to stop him.

If these these three had an ounce of the strategic awareness that the Las Vegas shooter had we would be looking at casualty rates in the hundreds and what does Donald Trump discuss at his first public appearance with the FFA?

His bad hair day.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/28/donald-trump-jokes-of-bad-hair-day-after-being-caught-in-rain-on-day-of-mass-shooting-8082040/

We are looking at a very high chance that this vulgarian will be front and center for everyone to see for the next 2 years.

And the evil is compounding. The DACA children are at risk. The legal TPS holders number exceed 600,000. If the asylum seekers reach the border and successfully apply for asylum he will lash out at them and others.

The competence of the regime is going to disintegrate as cabinet leaders leave in mass.

We are watching a dystopian mix between Groundhog Day and Lord of the Flies.

The really disturbing question is why is this mid term even going to be close? Before he was elected there was a theoretical argument that some could make that he was going to pivot and become Presidential.

Now we see that he has only card to play, the double down card and nothing is going to change.

[liberal N proud]

1. The only way this changes is trump leaves office

One way or another. He is the gasoline and the match, until he is stopped, nothing changes

[grantcart]

2. on a stretcher, in handcuffs or in a limo. Can you imagine what he will try and do if he

made it to the end of his first term and was defeated in the election?

He would make the transition into a mockery, kicking and fighting all the way.

[RHMerriman]

3. Well said...

Well said... except: Oklahoma City was in 1995; Sept. 11 was 2001. Six years apart. One decade, and more than 3100 dead, and some 7,000 injured.

I'm not arguing your point, that the Trump Administration's end is the crisis we face NOW; but even the worst of what we've seen is significantly different than what we've seen in the past.

Also, on edit:

ninety years of aggressive slavery, I think (1775-1865), correct?