re: #303 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

The takeaway: the biggest change Trump has made is that it is now impossible to pretend that our politics, the way we govern ourselves, is working in any meaningful way any more.

As a country, we have lost our way.

Elections have consequences. But only for the little people.

The rich live in a consequence-free world.

Our core problems - income inequity, environmental destruction, mass shootings, racism, sexism, inner cities abandoned to crumble into “Chiraq” … we aren’t dealing with ANY of that.

Our country is broken. Trump is just the instrument that rubs our noses in it.

This might sound like a strange version of optimism, but you’re seeing the cornered white supremacists, those that wear the uniform and those that don’t, fighting to hold on. They know they’re going to lose it, but they’re doing everything they can to hold on. What we’re seeing are the results of the faults in our current system that need to be fixed: gerrymandering, the EC, Citizens United. As with what happened in VA, it’s going to take all of us to fix it, but now is our time to set things up make some of those fixes.