It is happening - just like many of us here feared. the trump way of life is normalized.

[NRaleighLiberal]

We had an election stolen...we knew far before the election that Russia had its talons into our system. We did nothing. We have a party that is in so deep that it can't act - they are part of the problem.

We have a child molesting, "pussy grabbing" crass asshole installed as president and half of the country thinks it is the great thing since sliced bread - they have their man....someone who aims as low as and plays in the muck just like they do. The racists are excited...the misogynists are excited....

We have a constitution and political process that is not set up to deal with a destructive person who is in an utterly different paradigm, destroying all that is decent and crossing lines at an unbelievable - unprocessable - rate.

Just from scanning the media, we hear whispers that we won't know what Mueller is finding - that it will be blocked - that it is "nothing" - that there are no real crimes. We know this is bullshit - the crimes are in broad daylight - but apparently it no longer matters. The uber wealthy are having their wealth protected. The crooked politicians seem like they are untouchable - they can say or do anything and it doesn't matter.

We have a reality TV show person as our president and our lives have been turned into the same slimy reality TV show - yet it seems like it is on an endless rewind.

How the hell are we going to get out of this? And yes, I know - vote him out - but I, for one, do NOT trust our voting process - the counting part - any longer.

[babylonsister]

1. I'm keeping the faith that we will see the sunlight soon. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I'll have some of what you are imbibing!

As a typically very optimistic person, the last two years are a huge challenge for me to see beyond.

[babylonsister]

3. I sort of remember

feeling that way about the *bush years.

This too shall pass. I can't think any other way.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. the bush years seem almost quaintly awful compared to this utter cesspool!

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I keep thinking we're in "Stalinist Russia Redux - The Early Years"

The analogies keep running on a loop in my brain

Boiling Frog

Good Germans

Et Cetera

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I understand where you're coming from, but I do not share it.

Mueller is working still and there are results that we cannot yet see. Yet.

We took back the House and we are fully capable of winning the Presidency in 2020.

We have a deep, competent bench. One of them will become our next President, and maybe one of them will become our next Vice President.

And remember this about voting: North Carolina just decided to scrap last fall's election and do it over. Plus, the Republican who "won" has decided not to run again. The scandal has hurt his chances. He has a cover story: surgery in the meantime.

Don't give up hope! They love to see us hopeless.

[ZZenith]

7. It's more factual and more than a lot helpful to state that considerably less than half

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of the citizens of this country thinks favorably about the imbecile.

“half of the country thinks it is the great thing since sliced bread...”

[manor321]

8. I guess we can just give up then!

Oh well.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. I didn't say that. Don't put words in my post. I laid out where I think things are.

Dying to hear your ideas on how we get out of this.

[watoos]

9. Don't get demoralized, that's what they want.

The only way we lose in 2020 is if we fight among ourselves.

Remember also that Republicans have a lot more Senate seats to defend in 2020 than we do.

There is a cure for rigged voting machines, overwhelm them.