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LuckyCharms

(17,287 posts)
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 10:25 AM Jul 2018

So we get the blue wave

and the potential for further damage to be done by Trump at a policy level is hopefully mitigated. This would be an enormously good thing for the world.

And hopefully the pendulum will swing to the side of good, and we get a Democratic president in 2020.

But here is what we are left with:

1) Russian interference, if not downright control of our political system in the meantime.

2) Fox news

3) Rush Limbaugh

4) A vocal and angry large and significant group of big-mouthed motherfuckers who will not forgive or forget that their lord and savior, Donald Trump, was taken down.

5) The alt-right.

6) Uncontrolled and unregulated social media sites that will continue to post lies and photoshopped pictures that many many naive people will continue to believe.

7) A United States Congress that will continue to push for investigations into Hillary Clinton well past the year 3000.

8) Governmental corruption that runs so deep that literally no one will be able to get a handle on understanding it, let alone fixing it.

We need to focus on the ROOT of what is enabling people like Trump, because there will be more just like him after he is long gone if we don't.

All of the things listed above? We need to make them an EMBARRASSMENT. They need to be RIDICULED ENDLESSLY. They need to be SLAPPED DOWN, LOUDLY AND CONSISTENTLY. Progressives need to be BRAVE.

But make sure you do so in a civil and respectful manner, without getting too angry.

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3Hotdogs

(12,210 posts)
2. I hope I'm wrong but a blue wave won't matter.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 10:49 AM
Jul 2018

The KKK wing of the S.C. can strike down any law that Congress or states pass. There will not be a sufficient number of Dem senators to impeach any of these justices (hell of a word in this case).


The only power the blue wave will have is in the budget or stuff like "National Popcorn Month."

mopinko

(69,811 posts)
3. there must be prosecutions. we must have a nuremburg trials of our own.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 11:20 AM
Jul 2018

nothing short of a score of perpetrators and enablers dying in prison will even begin to root out the problem, let alone wipe off the stain.

 

lancelyons

(988 posts)
4. We need purchase Fox News and start the process of reprogramming the 1/3 of America.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 11:29 AM
Jul 2018

We need purchase Fox News and start the process of reprogramming the 1/3 of America.

get a few rich billionaires, alot of donations and purchase fox news and start reprogramming these Americans who have been misled.

Iwasthere

(3,138 posts)
5. This is the best idea I have seen yet
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 11:33 AM
Jul 2018

Is it even remotely possible to accomplish this? Faux news is the key to everything. Cut off his outlet, then start hacking or messing with his Twittering.

 

Kotya

(235 posts)
6. Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc are increasingly becoming irrelevant.
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 11:37 AM
Jul 2018

This are where old people get the news.

Young people get their news from the internet. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.

Fox News could disappear tomorrow and it would change nothing.

Golden Raisin

(4,600 posts)
7. Generalize/stereotype much? Ageism much?
Sun Jul 1, 2018, 01:06 PM
Jul 2018

That street and tired game runs two ways and we all can play it. It's just as easy and divisive to say: Young people need to register and actually vote after they get their news from the Internet, Reddit, etc. Trump's & the complicit Republicans' threat to democracy is everyone's problem, young and old.

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