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Originally Posted by wdmso
(Post 1202286)
Elections have consequences. Because only in your imagination Trump is Americas only hope..
When have I said he is America's only hope? You keep making up ridiculous stuff. Hope for what, anyway? What do you hope for?
I really don't have much hope, nor place much importance on hope. I think we must have a common set of principles on which we govern and are governed in order to have a cohesive well functioning society. I think the Constitution as written is that common core.
But I think that breaking away from that core is no longer fringe or extreme. A sizable number of Americans think it, as well as our capitalistic economy, are regressive, unjust, and inequitable.
And even the Constitution itself has been, and is being, tortured and "interpreted" on a fairly regular basis to mean things other than what is written, even things opposite to what is written. So it is no longer a stabilizing foundation, but more so used as a pretense-by-interpretation to suit the changing whims of new administrations.
So we are adrift, and increasingly in conflict. Even violent conflict. We are internally at war with one another. I don't pretend to have an unbiased view from some mythical "center" between the conflicting sides. We are too far apart to pretend there is some "center."
You may think that is "only in my imagination." I don't think so.
The same guy who went for a a ride around the block to wave to his faithful
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Nor do I think Trump is America's only hope--whatever that is supposed to mean. He is on one side of the divide. The same side I'm on. He holds the position on my side that I don't want us to relinquish. Not because he is wise or honorable or pure or a paragon of leadership, but because if he loses, and we lose Congress, my side loses the influence to help us creep back toward a constitutional order.
And the incoming side with its bureaucratic order, its system of governing by powerful agencies, its authoritarian administrative state will decide what rights we have, what freedoms we're allowed, and will have a hand in regulating every aspect of our lives. And, though it has already done much of that, and captured our educational system, the major portion of our media from news to entertainment, has radically transformed our culture, even our sexuality and genders, and is busy erasing our history and replacing it with what it considers politically, culturally, even physically, correct norms and identities, even though it already has that much power, it may well try to permanently solidify it by adding two more leftist states to hold the senate for the foreseeable future, as well as putting a major nail in the coffin of the Constitution by getting rid of the electoral college, further restricting the First and Second Amendments, and any other part of the Constitution it can dispense with by adding enough SCOTUS Judges to make it all happen.
And if that is not enough, it will lead us further into global corporatism, and eventually into global governance. It has already conditioned a good portion of our youth into accepting that we are too greedy, too oppressive, racist, unjust, too proud, domineering, rapacious, and an all-around bad apple within the world community. That we must give up a lot of that stolen wealth and high standard of living so that the rest of the world can have its share. Our "middle class" must not be allowed to revive. We must accept an equitable, classless, world normalcy within smaller boundaries of personal space and freedom and share that with those whom we have oppressed and from whom we have stolen.
Trump is not "the hope . . . the only hope." It's not about Trump. He does not have that much time left on this earth. The Constitution, our unalienable rights, our sovereign republic, may not either. And I realize that sounds quaint. And that all that good stuff above, that Progressives value, sounds about right to those on the your side of the divide--if I'm not being presumptuous in saying that's your side.
