He’s made following politics no fun. I used to come to Daily Kos because I was eager to get my political fix. I followed the horserace with a mixture of interest and glee. But Trump has given me a knot in my stomach I NEVER experienced with McCain or Romney.
Because Trump might win. And then we’d all die in a nuclear war.
This creep thinks nukes are a good idea and talks about his opponent being assassinated as if it is a good thing. He’s insane.
George W. Bush proved to me that if McCain or Romney had won, at least the progressive movement would have banded together in solidarity. We’d be united in a way we never were in the Age of Obama. That isn’t true with Trump. If his fascist tendencies go as badly as they could, I picture people who frequent websites like this rounded up by the police. That’s crazy-talk. I know. But it’s plausible. Because Trump has promised to put Hillary Clinton in prison if she wins. Whether she is guilty of anything is immaterial. If a former first lady and Presidential candidate can be jailed for no reason, so can the rest of us. Before you assure me that the police and the military will all refuse to follow blatantly illegal and unconstitutional orders, I remember Abu Graib and how practically no-one was punished for that. I am more scared right now about the future of my country than I have ever been at any point of my 40 years on Earth.
Politics is no fun anymore. Maybe it never was, and elections have ALWAYS been this life or death (black voters have known this for decades). But this is the first time I’ve actually felt it. And it sucks. I had a lot more fun watching Obama play 11th dimensional chess with McCain and Romney than I do watching Clinton play Russian Roulette with Trump. Especially because if she loses this particular game of chance, the rest of us do too.
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This year, more than any other: Vote Like Your Life Depends On IT!
Yeah, me too.
There is a large POTENTIAL upside to having such a dangerous lunatic headline the other party. Assuming that he loses in humiliation, which looks more likely after last night, the GOP will have to face a profound reckoning about their supporters and their behavior for the last decade or two. Their increasingly irresponsible shit-stirring has created a block of voters who will not accept any remotely realistic political result. They are unapologetically racist, entitled, terrified of phantoms and Agenda 21 bugbears, and no one with their head in this reality can pull them back to sanity.
Those deplorable shits now make up a plurality of the party. They have the driver’s seat and they are not giving it back. In a nutshell Peter King and Steve King just traded places. Now Steve King gets to decide who the party nominates, may god help us all.
GOP stalwarts who care at all about credibility (the Frum faction) have to choose whether to sit in the back seat while late-career Nicholas Cage redlines the old engine off a cliff, or get out and walk. Picture the agony of choosing between your country (and sanity) versus the party you worked for all your life. It will not be an amicable split. Both sides of the Steve King/Peter King divide will loathe each other much more than Hillary Clinton. Who, after all, has a reputation for working well with practically everyone.
Or Trump will win and the Steve King faction will hand out armbands. I really hope that doesn’t happen.
Yep, this is more dismaying than in the past, although Palin got close, but as VP was a bit removed. I operate under the (not politically correct) hypothesis that many American voters are stupid and many are willfully ignorant (which is a form of stupidity). But while seeing so many going for Trump is consistent with my hypothesis, it is very depressing to see such confirmation.
