Wow. We Americans sure do love our Republican politicians don't we?

[Kablooie]

We want a totally Republican government whether we want it or not.

With a conservative SCOTUS, Congress and state governors and legislatures, we are in for a massive tidal wave of Republican wet dream cream smeared all over our lives. Obama is the only bulkhead we have left and if they can pull off a successful impeachment even he may be breached. They don't have the 60 votes in the Senate to pull it off but I'll bet they will try damned hard.

Our only hope is that they will disgust the country so much that in 2016 the people will turn on them ... but don't count on it.
They closed down the government and hurt people all over the country and all it did was push them to a more glorious triumph.
I feel they have a tenacious lock on our government and our Democrats are much too feeble to do anything about it within our lifetimes.

God, I'm glad I live in California.
I may have to just stop paying attention to national politics and focus on California exclusively.
The rest of the country is too depressing to contemplate.

Sorry to all of you who live out there, but that's the world your neighbors seem to want.

[Oakenshield]

1. Wish I could be more optomistic, but I echo your sentiment almost exactly.

This California native needs a long break from politics after tonight.

[jaysunb]

2. Funny, I was thinking this very thing a few minutes ago.

God, I'm glad I live in California.
I may have to just stop paying attention to national politics and focus on California exclusively.
The rest of the country is too depressing to contemplate.

[yuiyoshida]

17. I agree...I mean

whats next? Ted Cruz President? bleh.. I am about to throw up.

[FarPoint]

3. I am trying to tell myself that it may be the only way people learn ....

By being hearded like sheep by the repugs into pure misery, they will become educated. Logic apparently didn't work.

[BlindTiresias]

4. They will love the misery

And lick their master's hand. People are not rational.

[FarPoint]

6. That's probably true....

This will be a long, hard learning curve. Only in the next generation can we find hope.

[BlindTiresias]

7. No, even then there will be no hope

This is not a new phenomenon, unless there are people willing to make radical stances the servile character of most humans will make itself manifest.

[Kablooie]

5. Nope. That won't work.

The pugs will tell them that under Democratic rule their lives would be even worse and they will believe because they will hear it over and over and over and that's all they will hear.

The Democrats will only reply in a small voice from obscure corners of the media megaphone and their answer will be, "It won't be that bad under us."

[October]

8. Wow. You proud of yourself now?

[Kablooie]

13. Heck no. Just glad that there are a few places that aren't dominated by Republicans.

[JI7]

9. California can be stupid also, remember Arnold

[Kablooie]

12. No question. But for now our turmoil is a little less than many other states.

[JI7]

16. yes, probably that and Obama being president makes me not feel as bad this time

as in the other losses in the past decade or so.

[DarthDem]

10. It's 67 Senators for Impeachment

Not 60. HTH.

[Kablooie]

11. Thanks. I wasn't aware of that.

and it makes it even more unlikely that they could succeed but it will be painful to watch even so.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. gawdamn. your OP just made my fifth martini, Kablooie !!

I can Not Believe this Shit.

[woo me with science]

15. No, when people feel trapped between two terrible options,

they tend to lurch back and forth between them in protest.

What you are seeing is a symptom of people's awareness that *neither* party is working for their interests.

No matter which party is elected, we keep getting the same overall direction of austerity, TPP, TISA, mass surveillance, "Kill Lists," indefinite detention, secret laws, secret courts, corporate education, drilling, fracking, new wars in Syria and Iraq, a TRILLION dollar ramping up of nuclear weapons when our president is signing ANOTHER round of food stamp cuts and a farm bill based on "pension smoothing." Not a single major banker in the mortgage collapse/theft held accountable, journalists and whistleblowers under assault, mass propaganda machines...It goes on and on and on.

People don't want to go in this direction. Seventy-six percent of them say we are going in the wrong direction. So they keep trying to switch parties, but they keep getting the same direction anyway.