re: #214 wheat-dogg

OK, I’m with teleskiguy here. The world is not ending, the USA is not a one-party dictatorship, Trump is not Mussolini or Mugabe. It’s not a bed of roses now, but conceding defeat now is just plain stupid. Trump did not win the popular vote, and some Dems were elected to formerly GOP seats in Congress. The news media has not been entirely co-opted, and no journos have been arrested or disappeared.

I live in a one-party state, and I can tell you the USA is not a one-party state now, nor it will be. I heard the RWNJs rant and rave for 8 years about Obama the tyrant and how the USA was a dictatorship, blah blah blah. Well, it wasn’t then and it won’t be now — not as long as people can push back against the stupidity of Trump and Co.

So, please stop with the hyperbole. Find a constructive way to fight the good fight, instead of indulging in pointless handwringing.

Denial. One political party will control all three branches of the federal government, 33 state governments and a majority of the lower courts. One political party is able to undo election results with obstruction, sabotage and can now ultimately repealing everything they dislike. One political party is maintaining their power despite being in the miniorty with voter suppression and gerrymandering. One political party can literally commit war crimes and collude with a foreign government and get away with it. One political party can screw over the blue states with more federal tax cuts and gutting federal regulations. Their bullshit always trickles down!

The vast majority of the media was co-opted long ago. The few media outlets that still engage in real journalism are reporting in a vacuum to liberals who are always ignored. No need to arrest journalists because journalism ceased being relevant a long time ago.