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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are so totally fucked
Everyday is going to be a fight. This isn't going to end well.
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We are so totally fucked (Original Post)
Horse with no Name
Nov 2016
OP
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)1. It won't be a fight. The Dems will cave and we'll be steamrolled
Prove me wrong Dems.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)2. You aren't wrong. n/t
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)3. Looks like we'll have to start over from 1955
and reboot the civil rights movement, the women's movement, gay rights, environmental protection, collective bargaining rights, and all that stuff we did a long time ago. We'll have to do it all again.
rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)4. Do I get to be eight years old again? n/t
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)11. Thread win.
To the OP, I agree that we're fucked. The GOP won the trifecta, the White House, the Senate, and the House. Soon they will have SCOTUS, too.
I'm looking at the glass and it's not even half empty.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)5. That is true
I am seriously just so sad at what is going on....
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)6. Right when the world can least afford such a setback :-( nt
annabanana
(52,791 posts)7. Anyone got an original copy of the
Whole Earth Catalog?
We will be way way too late to reboot environmental concerns... We already ARE...
livetohike
(22,163 posts)10. I do! It's a classic.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)8. We might get lucky
I'm not interested in seeing the country go down the shitter just to be able to say "I told you so."
So, I'll hold out hope that nothing catastrophically awful happens.
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)9. I'm glad my state at least has
legal marijuana
for now