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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else feel the weirdness of this unprecedented time? [View all]yardwork
(64,318 posts)9. I'm feeling the same way.
I'm coming to terms with the fact that this is different. A lot of institutions we depend on (and take for granted) are going to be destroyed.
Billionaire sociopaths have seized control, and they want it all. They want all the money and all the power. It's important to them - in their sick twisted little minds - that everybody else be beneath them, with no power, no rights, no choice but to serve and obey.
We've seen this for years in the way Musk communicates. He's mean. He punches down. When somebody dares to stand up to him he wrecks them. Trump is the same. They savor cruelty.
After we all come to terms over this loss of our democracy, we need to figure out how to survive and fight back.
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We've got to stop letting them call us "the left". There's maga and then there's everybody else.
Walleye
23 hrs ago
#1
So true. After he was elected, I sincerely tried to make myself feel better by
allegorical oracle
19 hrs ago
#72
His most "redeeming" features are laziness, incompetence, and lack of conviction (he has plenty of convictions though).
TheKentuckian
19 hrs ago
#76
The rethugs vowed during FDR's presidencies that they would someday regain total control and obliterate all that had
Texin
20 hrs ago
#68
Start by not letting them steal election. With the only REAL response is "thank you let me have another." Where is.....
usaf-vet
20 hrs ago
#54
Perfect diagnosis. I'd like to add one thing here, as to your "they cheated"
bluestarone
13 hrs ago
#95
You mean that Trump will help Putin destroy Europe and America if he can then yes. It's weird.
BradBo
22 hrs ago
#24
It's not unprecedented. Black people lived through this in the Jim Crow South.
Yavin4
21 hrs ago
#35
There are so many Fox type news things playing round the clock and you can tell
Maraya1969
20 hrs ago
#55
Yep. I feel like I'm on a plane that's going down, waiting for the crash.
CaptainTruth
20 hrs ago
#67
The only part of that I'm not wondering as well is "how so many people have lost their minds"
JHB
13 hrs ago
#97
The nuclear sabre rattling from russia has been going on for nearly 3 years.
Crunchy Frog
12 hrs ago
#100