WTF is wrong with our country?

[ybbor]

I am completely baffled by tonight's results. I know they were predicted, but still.

I have little faith in the survival of our once great nation. Our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.

I can't wait for the demographics to change. By then the right wing will have destroyed everything we once held sacred.

I am extremely depressed and saddened.

Can anyone find a silver lining?

[williesgirl]

1. I echo your words and feelings. I can't believe the ignorance/stupidity

Of our fellow Americans. Or shear laziness of those who didn't
bother to vote.

[oh08dem]

2. The republicans might actually have to do something that resembles work

hopefully the TP controlled house blows up the senate with a bunch of crazy ass bills and holds Mitch McTurtleface's feet to the fire.

[BlindTiresias]

13. yeah, except

people will be sent to hell and love it. You are forgetting that a substantial portion of the country wants to see all of progressivism burned and to re-institute the darkest practices of the 19th and 18th centuries, and they will get it too.

[freshwest]

20. +1

[YoungDemCA]

3. Silver lining is that the Republicans will overreach (as they always do when given total power)

and they will lose several seats (maybe even control) in the Senate, if not the House, in 2016.

Also, there's the presidential election that should be a great opportunity for us Democrats to strike back.

This is not the end of the world, even though it is depressing as hell, I grant you that.

[ffr]

7. Does this mean they can repeal my ACA coverage?

It's going to be one symbolic RWNJ 'repeal ACA' bill after another for 24 months.

It's insane what our lame non-voters just straddled us with.

[Amonester]

21. They may seek to amend it... but...

Their 'amendments' will not become legit if Obama refuses to sign them in...

[cali]

4. I'm not baffled. Citizen's United, racism, an enonomy that

isn't benefiting the vast majority, stupidity, disengagement, too many dem senate seats up in red and purple states, voter suppression. that's what's wrong.

Sliver lining? We'll take back the Senate in 2016 when they have to defend seats and we'll gain in the House.

[ybbor]

8. All of what you say is true

Add to that the planned failing of our schools. The complete dumbing down of the sheeple.

I think Bernie Sanders said that the right wing, read Kochs, spent billions to convince the masses that their votes don't matter. I guess they won.

I hope you are right about 2016, the national party needs to get their shit together.

[cali]

16. I'm sure I'm right about 2016. The vote will spike by some 40% and dems have no vulnerable

Senate seats.

[ffr]

5. Brown wins in California & they still have a blue supermajority.

We got clobbered here too. If the candidate had a (D) next to their name they got stomped hard, comparitively. Turnout was abysmal.

[JEB]

6. Waves of Koch money washing over the ignorance

induced by a media pushing obsession with the insipid. The court is stacked. Both houses in the hands of corporate owned stooges. America better wake up before we start more wars and cut taxes until the empire falls.

[ybbor]

10. That ^^^

[Initech]

9. Stockholm Syndrome

The Republicans have taken our country hostage since the Reagan and Nixon administration over the bullshit "Southern Strategy" (God, guns and gays). Since then they've tricked the populace into voting against their best interests and now we've fallen for our captors. The only way out is revolution, I'm afraid. :mad;

[Snarkoleptic]

11. Scared, dumb, mean and lacking critical thinking skills.

[BlindTiresias]

12. No silver lining

The country will move further rightward and the Democratic party will essentially capitulate to this. It is over.

[AnalystInParadise]

14. WTH

do Demographics have to do with anything?

[ybbor]

22. A lot

There is the thought that the GOP is made up of the older white generation, and as they die off so will the GOP.

Then the younger, more progressively thinking generation will fill that void and vote for progressive candidates, if the Dems every actually decide to run any.

So that is WTH demographics has to do with anything.

[roamer65]

15. I see it as the beginning of the disintegration of the republic.

Usually a republic disintegrates into chaos or fascism. We will find out soon which one it will be for us.

[toddwv]

17. Several things happened.

1) It's a midterm election. Fewer people show up to vote and it benefits the Republicans.
2) The Republicans' War on Voting may have eliminated just enough votes to give them an edge.
3) Citizen's United.
4) Corporate Media.
5) What do you get when you combine corporate-owned media with Citizen's United? You get exactly the information that the top of the top want you to hear.
6) Weak Democratic Party candidates who ran from their successes and, once again, let the Republicans set the tone.

Any one of those is enough to doom an election.

[ConnorMarc]

18. Massive Ignorance

America, as a country, is pretty much in a constant state of ignorant bliss.

With merely a cursory knowledge of just about any and everything.

The fact that the voting population is so low is indicative of this.

They are much more concerned w/going to the mall, watching their favorite team play a sport and watching reality TV than to be bothered w/the basics of politics and how it affects their lives.

As an immigrant from the Caribbean, my island votes perhaps in the 70% at least, just about everyone who can votes, votes, young and old, like 18 years up, everyone votes, even if they don't understand who they vote for, they know its important to vote.

This is missing in this country.

Until it changes to get more people voting, we'll have this like tonight.

Basically, everybody should always be campaigning to all their friends and every and anyone who would listen the importance of voting.

That's what I do. Each one teach one.

[Odin2005]

19. As far as I'm concerned, everyone who voted Puke is a traitor.

They are not Americans. Fuck them.

[Martin Eden]

23. "Can anyone find a silver lining?"

The demographics will change as the teabaggers die off.

Our task is to ensure that young Americans do not succumb to the vast rightwing noise machine and become teabaggers themselves.

To achieve that, the Democratic Party must stop aspiring to become Republican-Lite.

[Brigid]

24. What's wrong with this country?

Watch "Idiocracy". Therein lies your answer.

[Enthusiast]

25. That $7.25 minimum wage is going to look a whole lot smaller two years from now.

As ideologically rigid as the GOP is there is no way they will consider raising the minimum wage.

[City Lights]

26. It's laden with idiots. nt

[morningfog]

27. The problem is the duopoly.

The fundamental problem with our democracy is that it is binary. The two party system does not permit true representative govt. It is two big players sitting at a chess board agreeing to the rules and blocking any other positions, ideas or people from participating.