I feel a little less hopeful today.

I mean, your ancestors - where did they come from?

which is a good thing.

what is more dangerous? the wolf silently creeping up to attack the livestock or a dog rabidly barking and chasing the livestock?

they have been engaged in ratfuckery since at least the 60's as the nation pivoted to embrace of more liberal values.

we all just need to vote, encourage our core group we have influence over to vote and see that legal challenges are made where they should be made.

"I knew this was going to get ugly, but it my own naive way, I'm still not prepared. "

On election night, i got a pit of fear in my stomach that did not dissipate for weeks. I knew it was going to get bad. After two years, I thought I could not be shocked anymore, and yet, here I am, still being shocked. Naively, I thought surely there are limits to even what trumpco and the republicans can, and would, stoop to.

Nope, no limits.

Last night's "Friday night post office massacre" has embittered me all over again, and filled me with a rage and hatred - again. I knew it was going to be bad, and it still shocks me at least weekly, if not daily.

Given the speed at which his / their desperation and criminality is spiraling up, up, up and out of control, what more can we expect before election day...and in the intervening weeks between election and inauguration? (that is IF the election isn't stolen) The damage they can do....my God, the damage they can do. And their evil spiteful selves will make it as bad as possible, so that Dems can be blamed if we can't fix it in two years.

This can all be laid at the feet of those who have short-changed our education system, and encouraged bombarding them with hate-radio propaganda, in order to create a large, custom-made, controllable, brainwashable base, who are incapable of critical thinking. THIS is the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that Hillary talked about. That was not hyperbole. This moment in time is a direct result of decades of Republican ratfuckery.