Somehow the republic has survived similar idiots, but now it’s as bad as it’s ever been and the Democratic party is in unprecedented territory because even during the most horrible times there was some vestige of Democratic resistance in terms of political representation, but now especially for all POC, there will be heightened micro-aggressive hate in the most mundane actions of daily life. Many in TOP and here remember those days of early civil rights struggles, feminism, political tolerance, and we will be stepping back into those days, more open with Pence as another Cheney, and the first military test for the Trump administration an opportunity to use tactical nuclear weapons. And the FBI has simply made more obvious its political allegiances as civil liberties become more Russian, as will so many other things. And Trump will have an “enemies list” that will make Nixon’s musings even more unhinged. And as Trump promised 70% of regulation gone will screw the environment, perhaps forever.
But at my age, unemployed, no healthcare, and in debt, perhaps that won’t matter since I don’t have heirs, but I have always cared for and believed in a better America, and now it’s going to go back to something so very inhumane, so unfair, and so very anti-democratic.