Will this nightmare ever be just a bad memory?

[Stevendsmith]

Kinda like how we look back on the Reagan years?

Or is this a nightmare from which we will never awake?

I genuinely fear the latter.

[LisaM]

1. My nine-year old nephew was talking about what a bad President * is

And I got to thinking that in a way, he's lucky, because by the time he's 11, it will be over.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Depends on us, the American people...

the GOP will continue to put up relentless, thuggish greedheads as candidates for high office. That goes without saying.

If we continue to elect them, then yes, our Long National Nightmare will continue unabated.

[JeffR]

3. It will be like a permanent hangover

;(

[Kutjara]

4. It seems that, with every GOP Administration...

...the Repugs get a little better at manipulating the wheels of power. I wouldn't be surprised if, this time (or maybe the next) they'll work out how to ensure their supremacy forever. Of course, they'll dress it up as democracy (or it's pale imitation, 'choice') for the sleeping electorate, but it will be a right-wing ascendency in all but name.

[butterfly77]

5. No.

I can't believe it has gone this far. I can't believe that people of either party would let someone this incompetent try to run this country. Repugs would rather die than admit that he is a dummy when the whole world knows it, there are people who are in all facets of life who worship this dumbass and are proud of it

[Mist]

6. Yes, of course. Time moves forward, all fades eventually. nt

[bluethruandthru]

7. It may be "over" in 08...

but some (Oh, please God) Democrat is going to have to spend how many years trying to clean up this mess!! This is what drives me crazy because you know the repukes will do nothing but bitch about how awful things are after the Democrat is elected!!

[ThomWV]

8. It Is A Continuation Of The Terror Which Was The Regan Years

Make no mistake about it a you look across Bush's Administration. It is nothing more or less than a continuation of Reagan.

[Stevendsmith]

9. You're absolutely right.

Chomsky has made this point very cogently.

The Clinton years we're merely an intermission in the Reaganite supremacy.

[Guaranteed]

10. I think we're at an epogee, but the fight will never end.

Ignorance is a fact in our society. It's here to stay.

[patrice]

11. Nothing every really goes away.

It's all still here engraved in the changes it (whatever "it" is) wrought on the physical world. People and places will not ever be what they would have been if "this" had not happened.