"This may be the year when we finally just lay back and say it--that we are really just a nation ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and all his imprecise talk about “new politics” and “honesty in government,” is one of the few men who’ve run for President of the United States in this century who really understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for.

Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?”

Hunter S. Thompson in 1972, quoted by Charles Pierce.

Substitute "330" for "220", "property flippers" for "used car salesmen" and we're almost where we are today. Luckily, Joe Biden didn't make a lot of mistakes, so it looks like he'll just make it to the White House, but the greedy little hustlers will still control the Senate and far too much of state government - in a redistricting year. And that's what a horrifying amount of Americans wanted.

[DarthDem]

1. Don't count the Senate out just yet

[WA-03 Democrat]

4. Totally agree

Senate will become the focus once Biden/Harris called tonight

It like 2018...results get better the more we count

[catbyte]

2. That's why other states should follow Michigan's lead. We took redistricting out of the hands of

the legislature in 2018 because they had gerrymandered Michigan to a shameful degree. Now redistricting is in the hands of a bipartisan commission.

[ms liberty]

3. I've said we're the Ferengi from Star Trek. n/t

[Kacy]

5. Go back two more years to 1970...

to Walt Kelly/Pogo:
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”

[DarthDem]

8. Good quote

That came from Walt Kelly originally? I never knew that. What was he referring to?

[mcar]

6. Kick

[Yonnie3]

7. George McGovern, I worked on his campaign

I still feel a bit of disappointment.

[DarthDem]

9. Sorry :(

I can quite imagine you do! From everything I've read he was a kind and decent man. Thank you for your service in assisting him.