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They're fucking ecstatic that Trump and the Repubs sold us down the river.
Their faith is unshakable, and reinforced in their echo chamber of deplorable spin and absolutely FAKE NEWS which is often promoted in 'tweets' from the Liar-in-Chief himself.
Faith exists in the absence of proof.
The rightwing conservative Republican think tanks have been targeting this element of America for decades now. Plug in any "Republican" and it works!
Those of us who "believe in something else" need to do it in greater numbers than 'the deplorables.' 
"perp walk" (it's NOTHING like the "moon walk"
-- oh joy, can't wait.
The republicans regained control of congress after FDR died and Truman took over. Truman said throw out the "Do Nothing Republican Congress" and the voters did.
The republicans briefly gained control over congress during the Eisenhower administration, and they had control in the period just before the Great Recession (2005-2007).
The point here is that something bad always happens when the republicans take control of the government. If you overlay the recessions with the republican control of the government, it's almost uncanny how well they line up.
The problem is that our news and entertainment media are owned by big corporations and the republicans are friendlier to corporations than democrats. This allows republicans to come on the TV and talk about things that they believe will create jobs and cut the debt and all manner of actions that they're gonna take that has no supporting evidence that produces the outcome that they're predicting has ever occurred in the past.
If you use actual history as a guide. We will have a recession, and the republicans will blame it on the democrats because that has always worked in the past.
What we need is a television program that accurately shows how these proposals (like overturning environmental regulations) aren't going to do what they say they're gonna do.
...but until we can make such a program more interesting than 'The Voice' or 'Survivor' we are always going to have people supporting the very element that has caused their destruction.
We have always had this 'unsalvageable element' in our country and I expect we always will.
