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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm bummed, I'll admit it. I've waited for two years for tonight.
I'm so disappointed in people. At least we will eventually go extinct or evolve out of this state.
I just can't believe how many of our neighbors support what the GOP has become. We are absolutely in a living distopia. I will make peace and move on by morning, but for tonight I dutifully embrace this moment and dine on my bitter disappointment and drink in the dissolution.
Cheers!
obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)Period. People are waking up. That's progress.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)It's a big deal.
IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)Yes, that will be my solace in the morming. My disappointment is both more macroscopic, and microscopic... I'm both shamed at our country for getting to this point and further inscensed that we didn't resoundingly reject all that is the tonight. Beto and Gillum losing to their respective opponents is absolutely inexcusable in the current state of our union. We are a deeply tribal and near hopelessly uneducated populace. On the local scale, I am literally disappointed in my neighbors. The people I work with. The owners of the businesses I patronize. I live and work in both Tennesse and Florida. The breakdown of the numbers for Hamilton County, Tennessee and Lee County, Florida make me disgusted.
doc03
(35,325 posts)economy trump inherited.
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)We have taken back a branch of our government. It is only the beginning.
johnnyrocket
(1,773 posts)...it's a good start, and a herculean task.
I thought we'd never see it.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)We have the House. That means Mueller's investigation is protected, so are Social Security, Medicare and ACA, we can subpoena the tax returns, which will bring trump's downfall, we won a lot of state races so we can stop the damn gerrymandering, got rid of the first wave of the fascists, we now have some oversight.
I don't know what you were expecting, but I am pretty damn psyched.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to the curb.
We did OK tonight, but its going to be a slog the next few elections. We can win if we dont give up.
sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)spread into areas that once were true blue. If we had won a couple of Senate seats like Texas and kept ND, MO, IN, I'd have seen us on the way back to sanity. I cannot believe the yearning for fascism that has taken over white males and evangelicals.
I don't recognize the country of my birth and am no longer comfortable living here. I thought a great majority would rise up.
IamFortunesFool
(348 posts)Thank you
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)Extreme stresses from climate change will cause such global instability before then, there's a good chance western civilization will collapse into authoritarianism, then feudalism and worse.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)We all still need to keep up the fight to win this war. Tonight we won one battle. But it means our country is no longer racing into A Trump Dictatorship. So we stopped his headlong plunge into an American dystopia. Thats no small feat!
Tomorrow youll feel this.
renate
(13,776 posts)This was the necessary first step towards a reset of the country.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)is the Senate and judicial appointments. He could appoint another 2 SC Justices in the next 2 years.
Even below the Supreme Court, all the appeals and district courts are going to be packed with Trump judges for the next 30 years.