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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 05:46 PM Oct 2017

Trump, as godawful as he is, is only a distraction. That's the real nightmare.

The White House circus, and his lunacy, are actually helping the country is a perverse way--it's distracting the GOP from its agenda. And *they* are the greater danger. In Congress, in the courts, and most of all, maybe, in the state houses. We are not all that far from a constitutional "convention" that would, quite literally, destroy the United States as a liberal democracy. God knows what would happen then. Add a couple more Gorsuches to the Supreme Court, and the process would be complete. We would resemble Chile under Pinochet, though with a Disney veneer. And we will have done it to ourselves.

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Trump, as godawful as he is, is only a distraction. That's the real nightmare. (Original Post) First Speaker Oct 2017 OP
Yep, we have ONE shot and ONLY one. Every thinking person vote in every election for ANY Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1
Kinda, but lots of it's agenda is actually being implemented elleng Oct 2017 #2
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