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OliverQ

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17. American will probably never recover.

Reply to onecaliberal (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:35 PM

Jan 2018

The world will never trust us again, because they know we'll just elect another horrible Republican like Bush or Trump eventually and since the electoral college and Citizens United is here to stay, it's going to get harder to prevent these people from winning.

This is all just a symptom of a terminal illness of the United States. A massive racist, hateful, ignorant segment of the US population with far too much power and not enough people or mechanisms in place to stop them.

I truly think America is finished as the leading world power.

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I thought it could not get worse than George W Bush. [View all] onecaliberal Jan 2018 OP

The optics are way worse now, but Bush did a lot of damage to the US. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #1

donnie is laying the seed for vastly greater damage unblock Jan 2018 #3

I agree with your comments, with one modification. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #7

nice to know the bull in the china shop is on a leash. that'll help lots. unblock Jan 2018 #9

So far we do not have the worst depression since 1929, no mass murder of innocents Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #11

i agree. hard to compare a catastrophe in progress with a mostly completed disaster unblock Jan 2018 #12

I agree, yes the potential is there. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #13

What's going on now is worse than optics. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #6

Yes I agree, that is very serious damage. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #10

dump and russia stole democracy. They have stoked racial tension to an all time high. onecaliberal Jan 2018 #14

Excellent points. Yes, Trump and the GOP did sell out the country to a hostile foreign power. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #15

Yes the GOP is a crime syndicate. That is it in a nutshell. onecaliberal Jan 2018 #16

We all did. In this respect, elleng Jan 2018 #2

I know cilla4progress Jan 2018 #4

Its unbelievable. cwydro Jan 2018 #5

I'm right with you. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2018 #8

American will probably never recover. OliverQ Jan 2018 #17