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Heartstrings

(7,349 posts) Thu May 21, 2020, 01:12 PM May 2020

We survived.....

We survived a Civil War; We survived 2 World Wars; We survived Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression; We survived Nixon and his draconion ambitions; we survived 9/11 - and a con artist, narcissistic game show host and failed business man has done more damage in 3 years than all of those previous events mentioned....combined! Can our Democracy survive tRUMP?

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We survived..... (Original Post) Heartstrings May 2020 OP

Just watch. Sneederbunk May 2020 #1

it's not just Trump.. stillcool May 2020 #2

If a Democracy can survive the externalization of its own shadow side lunatica May 2020 #3

My answer to that depends on the day. FM123 May 2020 #4

Depends on if Fox News continues to exist. Initech May 2020 #5

Sneederbunk

(14,291 posts)

1. Just watch.

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2020, 01:19 PM

May 2020

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

2. it's not just Trump..

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2020, 01:39 PM

May 2020

the GOP brought him to the party, and they are keeping him there. So much of what they've been working towards for decades is coming to fruition. Trump doesn't know enough about government, to surgically remove unwanted parts, and install people that will accomplish the dismantling quietly behind the scenes. The GOP has been cultivating a race war, and on that Trump must have exceeded their expectations. Trump needs to go, but our government is still effed, with him or without him.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

3. If a Democracy can survive the externalization of its own shadow side

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2020, 01:55 PM

May 2020

then it will not only survive, it will come out stronger, wiser and cleaner.

You can’t fix something you don’t acknowledge. Trump is showing us our own corrupt underside. We have a choice now. Embrace it or eliminate it.

FM123

(10,053 posts)

4. My answer to that depends on the day.

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2020, 02:03 PM

May 2020

Today my answer is yes.
We have two secret weapons this time around that I think are really going to make a difference:
President Obama & Eric Holders's All On the Line campaign to combat GOP gerrymandering and Stacey Abram's Fair Fight campaign to combat the GOP's voter suppression. We can not overstate the importance that these two things have in the next election.

Initech

(100,081 posts)

5. Depends on if Fox News continues to exist.

Reply to Heartstrings (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2020, 04:04 PM

May 2020

Trump is a useful idiot to them. When he's no longer useful, they will cast him aside for someone who fits their criteria and caters to their cultish base. Trump is a symptom, Fox News is the real problem.

And if Joe Biden is elected, you can bet 100% that Hannity will lead the cult to object to his every single move with extreme scrutiny.

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