I welcome the coming storm

[demwing]

Fundies are all dandered up, ready to wage war on any thing remotely less than Blindly Christian. Idiots are in positions of Senate leadership. Fire and brimstone will be coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas will boil! Forty months of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! The dead WILL rise from the grave! Humans will be sacrificed, and dogs and cats will create domestic partnerships...

I welcome it all, because it simply cannot last. But I hope that while it's here for the next two years, it burns with the fire of 10,000 suns.

Am I fucking nuts?

Probably, but I'm also confident that after the coming shit storm, the pendulum will swing, and will will walk into a golden period of populist, progressive bliss, unseen in this country for over a generation.

The worse the Right Wing fuckers act up, the better it will be when their reckoning comes.

Can I hear an Amen?

[lovemydog]

1. Amen!

We must pressure democratic candidates - get economic populist or get the fuck out of way.

There was a time when working people could work one job, 35 or 40 hour work week, and support themselves and maybe even support their family. Every American.

We must return to that time.

Amen demwing!

[Geoff R. Casavant]

2. I wish I had your optimism.

I would like to believe you are correct, and I do believe you are not far off. The pendulum will swing and there will be a reckoning.

But we said the same thing in 2008, and here we are again six years later. The media has damaged our society's long-term memory beyond the nightmares of Huxley.

The defeated ones won't go away, they will diminish and they will hide while they regroup. And they will be back.

[mmonk]

3. There is no pendulum with gerrymandered districts

and a tepid Democratic Party with no principles. It's all up to us and the fight will be difficult.

[marions ghost]

5. ^^^

The pendulum only swings to the right.

[Duppers]

16. zactly! nt

[wavesofeuphoria]

4. Many thought that new era was starting in 2008

We were ready to end the wars, end torture, have accountability and transparency, do something positive about climate change, universal healthcare ...

Stadiums were filled with hope.

I don't see it happening in this status quo. Old systems are rigged. New ones need to be found.

[Odin2005]

20. I thought we elected the 2nd Coming of FDR, we got Al Smith instead.

[kydo]

6. domestic partnerships....?

PC peeps. I remember back in the day it was just living together. But I suppose cats and dogs have the same rights to form domestic partnerships as the next mammal, but where does it end, what's next snakes and lizards? Eh who am I to judge I suppose it could work.

Oh and yeah, Amen dude! No really it is always darkest before the storm and once the storm is over its blue skies baby and big mess to clean up.

So its and then

In a sick way I am cool with this, I watched how to survive the zombie apocalypse, saw an episode of doomsday preppers, got a generator, foil, and gum. I'm good to go. No worries.

[Orsino]

7. Fear it. The coming storm is going to kill people.

it's not going to discriminate by party, and it's going to pauper, dispossess and even kill people. It's nothing to welcome, even if you think you can weather it.

[cali]

8. No amens from me. Yes, the pendulum will swing, but it keeps getting recalibrated to the right

not to mention that a lot of damage and pain will be inflicted in the meantime.

[deaniac21]

17. Wild In The Streets

14 or fight!!!

[gordianot]

10. The trick will be how to get out of the way of the storm.

Get caught this time you just might go to jail the next bail out not free.

[upaloopa]

11. Not as long as the right controls the media.

We will have a nation of cognitive dissonance.

[jwirr]

12. Amen and God help us through it.

[Nitram]

13. I agree demwing

The teabaggers and the fundies are going to mess up any chance the GOP has to gain some credibility by actually accomplishing anything useful. But now they will have no one to blame for their blind incompetence. and the odds are good that the GOP will overreach and do something that really pisses of the American people. I'm looking forward to the fireworks.

[demwing]

14. Organize

they have the mike, but we have the voices

[lamp_shade]

15. aaaaaaaaaaamen.

[Waiting For Everyman]

18. Amen.

I agree with you, but it's also that the pessimism that is so in vogue these days doesn't help a damn thing. And it's trite.

[Odin2005]

19. I fear it is going to have to get BAD before people wake up.

During the lowest point of the Depression, 1932/33, millions of people were literally starving, and tens of millions were malnourished and homeless.

[AverageJoe90]

21. I'd certainly like to hope so.

It would certainly make sense, anyway. But, over these past few months, I've begun to come to a realization that isn't exactly uplifting; perhaps, just maybe, we don't live in a terribly sensible, and/or plausible, reality, as "alternate history" aficionados such as myself might put it.

I would definitely like to be wrong on that. I really would. I guess what ultimately ends up being true will depend on how the next 6 or so years play out; perhaps the Republicans will overplay their hand once again, and the people will finally see just how bad the current crop of Goppers are at governing, and they either force themselves to reform or drop out into obscurity. Or perhaps, by some tragic probability quirk, we may end up electing a Paul or a Santorum in 2016. Or, going by the middle, someone who isn't so insane like Rob Portman wins, but the GOP manages to fuck the country up all over again.....yet again, OTOH, we get a Kirsten Gillibrand or a Julian Castro in 2020 to finally finish what Obama started.

(P.S., yes, I know my little theory may sound crazy.....just go with the flow, anyway. )