2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Say it ain't so Nate....538 Poll [View all]Cosmocat
(14,615 posts)This country WILL NOT hold republican's responsible unless they are complete flaming disasters.
The continued indulgence of conservatism by us defies any level of common sense and responsibility.
But time after time after time after time, they fuck shit up, they say and do abhorent shit and somehow there always is the frame on EVERYTHING that there is an evil liberal boogyman that justifies it all, and best we get this false equivilency bullshit that "they are all the same" that somehow ALWAYS benefits republicans.
I still have visceral memory of election night in 2000, knowing it was going to be bad, telling people in the bar we in how bad it was. And, as you noted, Ws tenure was even worse than even I expected.
However, it took W to get 2006 and 2008, the only election where this country held these assholes responsible and elected democrats to control DC in the last four decades.
Barrack Obama has been a darn fine POTUS, and the republicans have on their best god damned day been useless, and most days have actively worked AGAINST this country for the last 8 years out of there deranged hatred of any POTUS democrat. AND, the stupid as shit people in this country saw fit to give them the biggest mid term win since the last time they gave the assholes a huge ass mid term win and otherwise never held these dickheads even the first big responsible.
AND TODAY, this party has the most comically bad POTUS candidate in our history a fricken testical hair away from winning.
Now, is is certainly preferable, but lets be honest about what happens if Hillary wins - it will be four or eight more years of what we have seen the last eight years.
Republicans being out and out seditious bastards and this country blaming Hillary for it.
The only way we get any real movement, unfortunately is if they get full power and fuck it up in on massive scale the way they do it.