How the hell is this all OK? How the hell can this be happening?

[Moostache]

36. I have felt this nation sliding towards a 2nd Civil War for the last 35 years...

The GOP and their ilk are dead set on destroying the social safety net, all government regulation and allowing plutocrats to bilk the rest of us at will. They are racists (sorry but the truth is to be worn like a literal scarlet letter on them). They have no empathy. They are without vision or purpose beyond killing the government of the people to install government by the wealthy.

These sons-of-bitches want to put women in the kitchen, minorities in the back of the bus and white men in charge of everything (and I AM a white man who finds this horrifying)...

There is no compromise with them. They are implacable and unbending and we as Democrats need to STOP believing that there is such a thing as a "sane Republican" or "honest broker" to deal with on their side...
They have stolen generations of accumulated wealth through tax cuts that looted the Social Security Trust Fund and even went so far as to say things like "Budgets don't matter", "Tax cuts pay for themself" and ran up the cost of 2 wars on the national credit card by NEVER adding those costs to the budget in the first place. They claim the mantle of "fiscal responsibility" and it is a demonstrable, hideous LIE!!! (DEBT GOES WAY UP UNDER GOP ... THAT IS FACT!)

Democrats must own some of the blame for not fully stopping these trends and bad behaviors during the Clinton and Obama administrations...but I will cop to it...it felt good in both of those eras just to STOP DOING WORSE DAMAGE (moving away from Reaganomics under Clinton and repairing the disastrous GWB errors under Obama)...it was easy to settle for slowing down the damage to the nation than it would have been to fight harder and REVERSE the damage.

As the communication between urban and rural becomes more strained and less of a common reality, the likelihood of a second split in the nation increases. The cheering on of your "team" in our politics, irregardless of their misdeeds, lies or crimes is a dire problem.

I do not have a lot of hope for the future.