Fascism just got hold of the United States. We are now seeing the worst of the worst elevated to positions of incredible power. Racism has been legitimized and the reports of hate crimes are rolling in. Trans children are committing suicide. Stock prices of private prisons and coal have skyrocketed. Women are months away from truly losing the right to control their own bodies. Marriage equality is under attack. The safety net is about to be destroyed. Hard won progress on climate change is about to go down the toilet. We are about to lose all regulations on the financial industry. Millions are terrified of being rounded up for deportation. Muslims are facing honest to God persecution. We’ve gotten confirmation that the world’s most powerful dictator manipulated our election to get the result he wanted. Our allies in Europe are freaking out. Intelligence from the Middle East indicates that al-Qaeda and ISIS are over the moon with joy.
And the majority of the people here are refighting the primary war? Ignoring the terror of huge swaths of America to gloat? Dreaming of how this is all going to work out for them in the future?
Can people really be this stupid as to what is happening ? This blind to what is coming down the road?
If DKos is going to have any role to play in resisting what the United States now faces, in protecting the most vulnerable, somebody needs to get a hold of this place. I’ve seen this divide and conquer game played plenty of times in Africa. It is how those who want to control you, beat you. And you can bet your life that Putin and the GOP had a hand in setting us against each other in the first place.
It seriously doesn’t matter who voted for whom anymore. Who sold us down the river because they were just too precious to help fight fascism the easy way. We are now sitting in a new and truly frightening era. Yesterday means nothing.
Grow the fuck up people.