But I’m not. Every day looks worse for what’s left of our democracy:
I don’t actually have confidence that we will have a functional democracy by 2020. It’s entirely possible that historians, assuming the exist in a century, will see 2016 as the end of a period of American history where rights generally expanded. That’s because Trump, Giuliani, Sessions, Gingrich, Flynn, etc., etc., and most importantly huge chunks of the Republican base, simply do not respect the fundamental tenets of democracy and they are seeking to roll back two generation of social progress. Despite what I might have believed a mere few weeks ago, they are in fact reasonably likely to succeed. And I am disappointed in myself for not seeing this more clearly before the election. Democrats and liberals were holding on strictly to the presidency as a buffer between us and the apocalypse. Between gerrymandering, voter suppression, and a bloody ineffective DNC strategy to operate on the state level, Republicans had already grabbed most of the levers of government. And while Trump is uniquely bad in some ways, in many others, he really isn’t that much worse than your bog-standard mainstream Republican governing class such as Scott Walker, Rick Scott, Paul LePage, Rick Snyder, or, of course, Mike Pence.
All we really have in the end is massive resistance. That is where we are heading–acquiescence or resistance. You and I will all need to make our choices about whether we will stand up against oppression in ways that a lot of our ancestors did not stand up to Jim Crow, to Chinese Exclusion, to the Japanese internment camps, etc.
I’m not sure we’ve had a functioning democracy in at least 20 years. The dysfunction just more obvious now. It was ovoids in 2001. Now it is completely undeniable .
Me too, Guest. But isn’t wonderful that we’ll have at least 4 years to watch Amerikkka get Great Again? Besides, all you have to really do is DUCK, or “shelter in place” because trump’s team of Nazi -like enablers have a real plan for everything to fall in place, sort’a like the 50’s, ya’ know—-especially if you are blond, blue-eyed, straight, and God forbid, a low information white person you’re in great shape!