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user-inactivated  ·  2938 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sense of Alienation

    Well, fuck. now what?

We fight, or we die. Same as it ever was.

I was hoping to fight for climate policy, alternative energy, infrastructure. Now we gotta fight for Obamacare, the Supreme Court, Republican tax cuts that loot the treasury and the paving over of the environment.

To help you feel a bit better, I work and live around evangelicals. They are all down because Trump won't talk about God, he's a liberal Hollywood degenerate who has been divorced twice and he is married to a slut who took naked photos. (And for the quote-miners, those are their words, not mine.) The middle sane conservatives and those of us fighting for better justice and the middle class might have something in common over the next four years as Trump turns into a clown show.

Remember, Trump is a liberal-ish New York Republican. On the social stuff I doubt he is going to do anything that is not a simple virtue signal pander. He wants to loot the treasury and help is Wall Street buddies make a few more billions, middle class be damned. The economic stuff he wants to push is going to do a ton more damage than anything else he is going to do, and that needs to be fought.

The thing you should all be freaking out about? Chief Justice Roberts just got his Conservative majority on the court.

I've been telling anyone who will listen that if you treat these people in Rural Redneckistan as an other, you will lose. I hate being right.