Jem wrote:
Cavey wrote:
Anyway, hope you're well sweetheart.
Utterly distraught just about covers it.
Gah, it's only politics Jem, the power of the Presidency is far from absolute and there's just no way he's going to be able to pull off more than a small fraction of the demented stuff he was banging on about during his campaign - and that's even assuming he even wants to do so? After all, he's been playing to the gallery (among the more swivel-eyed demographic elements) just to get elected, plain and simple.
I'm not suggesting this isn't a bleak day, nor that we haven't regressed 15 years, but there will be a recovery from this. In the grand scheme of things and on decades timescales, this will, I am sure, be viewed as little more than a symptomatic blip, the "fuckwit's last hurrah" if you like; it's not as though the fundamental, Big Picture liberal drivers that push human advancement positively forward have gone away.
Yes, I'm an Optimist for sure, but this is my take on it. Plus, from this moment forwards, I very much doubt that any liberally progressive Party will ever, ever put forward a damaged-goods and/or uncharismatic, lacklustre candidate just because it's their turn or whatever, ever again. Complacency be damned.
(On a more personal note, if you ever fancy a chat you know where I am. If nothing else, my blind, child-like worldview has got to raise spirits a little, amirite?
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