Howdy y’all!
I’ don’t know about all y’all, but this campaign season has just been wearying in ways that 2016 and 2020 weren’t. I’m so tired of the same old song and, literally, dance from Donald Trump. I’m tired of incessant lying. I’m really tired of his lies being picked up and repeated by lackey Republican politicians. Who could possibly say that there was a peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 election? How is that even remotely acceptable to anyone?
I’m tired of the polls being tied. I’m tired of the polls being reported on as if they mean something when we know that there is no way a sample representative of the voters in the 2024 election is even remotely possible. There is no way that the polls can factor in the changes to the electorate into their sampling. The polls should all be reported as such.
I’m tired of worrying about whether the courts are going to throw the election to Trump when he makes his legal challenges to votes in Democratic precincts. The attempts to purge voting rolls AFTER early voting ballots have been sent to the electorate is a painfully obvious illegal attempt to suppress the vote. Will the courts uphold it or not? Will appellate courts hear the appeals? The attempts to create “problems” with the vote by requiring hand counting of ballots and allowing indiscriminate challenges to specific voters or votes from specific areas by creating new rules within weeks of voting is a naked attempt to nullify votes and give false pretext to challenging votes in court. They’re hope is to keep the count from being certified by Safe Harbor Day and get SCOTUS to Bush v Gore Trump back into the White House.
I’m sick and tired of the American public and the MSM being gullible enough to accept these challenges to our democracy as normal and even desirable.
I’m so tired of it all. I can’t wait for it to be over. God willing Harris wins because if she doesn’t, Trump and the Republicans not only destroy our democracy and our system of Western alliances, but also, our climate’s ability to support the lives of eight billion people.
I am goddamn sick of the existential threat that Trump’s narcissism poses to the human race.
Comment on the things you’re sick and tired of this election cycle. How does this election seem different to you from 2016 and 2020?
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I’m so sick of Trump. & MAGA. & most of the GOP.
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You and me both, sibling. I can’t wait to move past this chapter in American and world history. I just hope we move past it in November.
Jack
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We’re more that sick and tired. We are quite justifiably terrified.
We recall when Bush and Cheney lied us into war with Iraq, the corpo-media went along with them. It was then that I realized when fascism comes to America it will be welcomed by corporations and millions of duped and frightened voters.
I just read Rachel Maddow’s book “Prequel” and discussed it at my blog.
Before WWII Hitler had the support of perhaps millions of Americans. The Nazis held rallies at Madison Square Garden. Eventually Hitler was eliminated, but Nazis survived.
Well, their offspring and descendants are now MAGA. After decades the massive and successful radical Right propaganda by Murdoch, Limbaugh and other extremist outlets has borne their fetid fruit.
In addition, our democratic republic has also been systematically subdued by the partisan treachery of the Supreme Court. They essentially represented Trump by conveniently eliminating that quaint “equal justice under law” notion.
So here we are, on the brink of a white Christian nationalist coup under a tyrant being granted immunity from the law.
Even if Trump is defeated, Trumpism and his fascists will remain.
The struggle against fascism never ends. When a nation forgets this, fascism wins.
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Howdy Dave!
Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. “Prequel” was great. And, her follow up, “Ultra,” is equally great.
I think that there are types of people who are vulnerable to racism and totalitarianism. They have an easily triggered fear of people who look different than they do and long for a single strong person to take care of them. Then there are those who are persuadable because meh.
That stream has existed in America from the beginning of the country. We have struggled against all along. Our original confederation, the three-fifths compromise, the Civil War, Jim Crow, Nixon and Reagan, all of it are all a very large segment of the population passed from generation to generation through genetics, family lore, culture and geographical culture.
“They’ve” been working towards it since Barry Goldwater warned us against allowing the extremist Christians getting control of the Republican Party. Eliminating civics education, dismantling unions, undermining trust in government, allowing big money into our politics, presidential immunity, it is all coming from the same set of people who do not want us to be a democracy.
For profit anything is for profit above all else. We cannot rely on corporate America to do anything other than look out for its bottomline. And fascist governments work with large corporations to maximize power and wealth. Of course, the billionaire class wants fascism. Its the system that will make them the most money.
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Jack
PS I’ll drop by for your posts on “Prequel.” Sounds interesting.
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We’re more that sick and tired. We are quite justifiably terrified.
We recall when Bush and Cheney lied us into war with Iraq, the corpo-media went along with them. It was then that I realized when fascism comes to America it will be welcomed by corporations and millions of duped and frightened voters.
I just read Rachel Maddow’s book “Prequel” and discussed it at my blog.
Before WWII Hitler had the support of perhaps millions of Americans. The Nazis held rallies at Madison Square Garden. Eventually Hitler was eliminated, but Nazis survived.
Well, their offspring and descendants are now MAGA. After decades the massive and successful radical Right propaganda by Murdoch, Limbaugh and other extremist outlets has borne their fetid fruit.
In addition, our democratic republic has also been systematically subdued by the partisan treachery of the Supreme Court. They essentially represented Trump by conveniently eliminating that quaint “equal justice under law” notion.
So here we are, on the brink of a white Christian nationalist coup under a tyrant being granted immunity from the law.
Even if Trump is defeated, Trumpism and his fascists will remain.
The struggle against fascism never ends. When a nation forgets this, fascism wins.
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I am immediately reminded of this quote by Keynes:
This bullshit, dread, and emotionally and physically draining chaos is absolutely intentional and deliberate on the part of the fascists; a standard part of the playbook we’ve seen over and over and over again.
They WANT you to believe that “none of us have the real power to make significant change” and simply give in, then march quietly into the boxcars when we’re ordered to.
I refuse to give in to nihilism.
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Howdy Bruce!
Yes, they want us to be emotionally and physically drained so we will be easier to manipulate and control. It is part of the mass psychosis, fascist propaganda playbook. Unfortunately, it works. It’s why they do it.
We all will reach our low points in the cycle of resistance. I’m currently at my low-point. All is not lost. I’m just venting my frustrations and amazement that so many of us are, seemingly, not capable of resisting the playbook. We might be. The only problem is we won’t know until the votes are counted, and if the fascists win, we won’t even know whether the counts were accurate or not.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Jack, yes, I’m bone weary of “The Age Of Trump” and Trumpism. In his recent deterioration, I can see even he himself reaching exhaustion trying to keep it going. As for those pollsters, they’ve gotten something (not always the same thing) badly wrong in every election cycle since he came down that escalator, and that’s just the ones trying to honestly get it right. [Which is not to imply that their previous record was all that great.] In short, I think the whole thing qualifies as trauma and/or PTSD on a national scale.
I wish that I could expect a clear resolution to come on Election Day, but it looks certain that the madness will not quickly die down. Too many stand to profit politically and financially from stirring the pot, whatever the result of the voting.
I voted on Friday, the second day of early voting here in North Carolina. Franklin is a very Red town in a Red Congressional District. The waiting line was more than 50 people, and one of the poll workers said it had been steadily busy all day. I have no way to know whether that is a good sign or not. But, everybody was well behaved and patient. That may be a hopeful sign at least for the public mood.
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If you consider the march of time, then elections begin to fade in importance as far as History is concerned…what is so relevant today is not even a footprint on the sands of time in years to come…but the humans will always worry and will always struggle to cope with whatever comes their way– that is something that never changes and never will as long as there are living human beings …so what am I worried about concerning the election of 2024? There isn’t much need to worry about anything because none of us have the real power to make significant or meaningful change in any of what transpires …We are just going to have to do what we can with what we have got to weather the Trump Reich if it gains sovereignty and if we can’t weather it then we will die and be buried and forgotten as time marches on.
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Howdy John!
You are right about that. If we can’t cope with the extremes of climate change, we will cease to exist — go extinct — but life will carry on on the planet. It will just be another mass extinction event on planet Earth.
Kinda sucks to have to live through it, though.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I kind of have to wonder how a person can survive a mass extinction event… but you say we have to live through it… what would be your method for doing that?
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I don’t say we have to live through it. Life will go on. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, insects, some plants, some mammals, some birds, maybe even some fish will survive. There might be small groups of human beings survive a climate collapse. There might not. Probably better if we don’t, though, since we have driven almost every other species on the planet to the brink of extinction. That’s what we seem to do, drive others to extinction.
Huzzah!
Jack
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