Deja Vu
The more things change...
“I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” Samuel Clemens
Author’s Note: In the process of archiving now deleted Meta and Twitter accounts, I was reminded of the post from the summer of 2017. For most part, it holds up rather well.
The problem with politics today is actually simple. We have a very well funded and incredibly deep rooted block of far right religious zealots spewing obscene family values at us while promoting racism, sexism, misogyny and just general hatred.
On the other hand… there is no other hand. The establishment GOP and Dems are split into a multitude of bickering, pointless, almost defunct factions and can't even fathom how to either oppose the rise of the dark ages or even win an election.
No, there's no silver lining. Dems will not win back the House (nor the Senate). GOP will continue giving in to Bannon's Leninist deconstruction of the republic unable to do anything even when faced with own extinction.
There will be no impeachment. There will be no 25th Amendment. Lacking any serious opposition, when it is all said and done we will either be all dead after a nuclear holocaust or living under a canonical autocracy...
“When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.”
Bertrand Russell