If Donald Trump is Re-"Elected," We Are Dead
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Not physically. I am in no way, shape, or form speaking in the context of pandemics, or really any medical issues at all.
No, the bases I am referencing are national, cultural, constitutional, and, if one is so inclined, spiritual.
If Donald John Trump somehow obtains another four years as president, the nomenclature will not be changed in the slightest: the name of our country will remain the United States of America. But in the event itself, that name will have been rendered oxymoronic, as we shall not be united but divided (our current situation, only now made permanent), nor will we be states in the classical understanding, as such terminology calls to mind words such as stasis, or, more bluntly, stability. There will be none of this, in any of our 50 political subdivisions, under a reinvigorated Trump Regime.
Of course, most destructively of all, we shall cease to be, in any meaningful way, America. No, there won't be foreign troops occupying our soil, not even Russian! But the fabric, the essence, and---dare this agnostic say?---the soul of our Republic will all perish, replaced by a Potemkinesque facade of democracy all our own, publicly going through the motions of freedom while our true rulers conspire and connive against us in their billion-dollar sinecures, doubtless gazing down in amusement at the rest of us, increasingly-destitute masses which may very well be huddled, but no longer yearning to breathe free, but merely to breathe, period, as the ever-more-toxic biosphere from which their obscene, unearned riches protect them wreaks disease, death and destruction on those of us who, far too late, have recognized the brand of the American Dream they have been selling for the scam that it really is!
On November 3, 2020, I don't give a flying fuck what it is you have to do in order to get every goddamn liberal you know off their asses, out the door, and to the polling place to vote for Joe Biden, far from a perfect man, but at least an actual man, unlike the Result-of-a-Genetic-Experiment-Gone-Horribly-Awry that currently occupies the White House. Personally, if I have to, I will break into the houses of every liberal I know and slap them awake, potential legal consequences be damned!
Shit has Really Gotten Real this time, folks. Act accordingly!
sop
(10,166 posts)It can't be repeated too many times.
DEbluedude
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world wide wally
(21,741 posts)AirmensMom
(14,642 posts)And not to sound too down about it, but absolutely no one listens to me. No one. My own kids think I'm a liberal loony. Yeah, they hate Trump, but they can't be bothered to vote. And if they did vote, it would be for a Repub because, you know, liberals want to take their guns and force us all to have an abortion.
I've been trying. It's all I can do now to get the one who live close-by not to go out shopping at dozens of stores before visiting me. (She's like her dad in that way.) She thinks it's a matter of belief, as in "we all have our own beliefs." No one can convince her that it's fucking SCIENCE! Anyway ...
I really hope this nightmare is over soon. I just feel powerless to do anything. Most of my friends are as fired up as I am, and a good number of them have kids just like mine. We didn't raise them like that, but we are not the only influence in their lives. Seems like the only people who have kids who espouse the way they were raised are the evangelicals. Damn discouraging.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)Desert grandma
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I agree that could be the end of the country as we know it. Personally, I am making plans to move me and my family out of here to Costa Rica or Panama if he by some miracle (or underhanded cheating) wins again. We want to spend our remaining years in peace and relative calm. Not the chaos we experience daily now. I pray that will not be necessary.