When Obama Won I Thought Our Darkest Days Were Over After Bush.

[TheMastersNemesis]

I thought the Bush years had brought the country to it's senses. I guess not.

[HAB911]

1. this is beyond imagining

[Angry Dragon]

2. So did I

[AmericanActivist]

3. This is one of the most difficult things to

come to terms with. I haven’t been able to get past it yet. The devastating, crushing heaviness of this concept is beyond comprehension. I too thought we barely survived W & Darth Cheney and that with President Obama that darkness was behind us;something we would be working to clean up and overcome for years. And then...

[Chasstev365]

4. Little did we know McConnell and the GOP held a meeting

before the Obama administration even began to ruin his presidency. Their crowning achievement was to deny Marick Garland' Supreme Court nomination.

People often hit me a here on DU for daring to be critical of the Democratic Party. When you look at who we're up against, is it wrong to want Democrats to be ruthless (within the law) to beat these evil traitors?

[lapfog_1]

6. Ruthless now is better than civil war later - n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

8. I *knew* all the republican obstruction was NOT about *Obama* even

though that was the underlying republican meme.

I knew they had their own agenda and they would ramp up their destruction once Obama left office.

It's about destroying democrats and democracy, not about a biracial president who had the temerity to run and win two terms in office.

Republicans are now empowered with passing the Tax Reform bill.

Think of what else they're planning to shove through the chambers.

[lapfog_1]

5. Sometimes I wonder

If Hillary had won the primary in 2008...

Would she have picked Obama to be her VP?

Had she picked him, would he have run and won in 2016 against Jeb or Ted?

But then I wonder if Hillary was not able to defeat McCain...

And we might now have Sarah Palin as President?

And if that happened we would be right where we are now...

I really wish there were an infinite number of alternative universes that we could observe and see the results of the paths not taken.

[Chasstev365]

7. And I dream that RFK had not been murdered in 1968

and won the presidency, it all would have been so much different. No Nixon, Vietnam ended sooner, No Watergate, no Reagan Revolution and the crazy conservative nightmare we've all had to lived through....

[FM123]

9. And if the producer of the Apprentice gave trump that "raise" he wanted

perhaps he would have just stayed on TV. I remember a Guardian article by Michael Moore that said Trump only ran to leverage more money from NBC. I wish they just gave it to him right then and there.

[whathehell]

10. It would all have been different if JFK hadn't been murdered..

Vietnam expanded under Johnson. JFK wanted to draw it down.

[Soxfan58]

11. Lesson learned

We will never be complacent again.

[Willie Pep]

12. Americans seem to forget history even recent history.

I don't get how people can see how badly the Republicans govern and then say "well let's give them another shot." A big part of it is the power of misinformation via the usual suspects (Fox News, talk radio, right-wing websites) plus ignorance and apathy. A lot of people don't care about politics very much so they hear "tax cuts" and think "I want lower taxes, that sounds good." I know plenty of Republicans who are like this. They don't really follow politics but just like the idea of tax cuts so they vote GOP. Then you have the racial and other culture war angles which is another piece of the puzzle.