Go ahead and attack me, but the defeatism on this site is out of control

[AverageOldGuy]

59. Well, yes and no . . .

Yes, things do look bleak right now.

On the BAD side: I'll bet a lot of Germans said, "Well, how bad could this Hitler guy be? After all, we are a civilized nation from a long line of culture and history, we cannot descend into barbarism." Which is EXACTLY what the talking heads on MSNBC and CNN and their Substack blogs are saying. And we see how that turned out for Germany

On the GOOD side: We are a nation with a history of laws, a center that holds, decent people who win out over evil. At least that's the way it's always been.

We shall see.

I'm betting:
-- Trump loses some fights with Republicans in Congress but he winds up with evil, nasty people in critical positions and we start going down the toilet.
-- Much of Project 2025 is enacted causing a lot of people a lot of suffering and there's nothing like a little suffering to wake up the sleeping.
-- Things get really bad really quickly. However, the 2026 election turns at least the House over to Democrats who can keep their finger in the dike until 2028.
-- Trump dies, JD Vance and the rest go to hell where they belong.
-- At takes us a decade to fix things.

Meanwhile, I live in a red, rural VA county where Harris-Walz yard signs were shot up, burned, stolen. Already those of us known as Democrats are getting nasty comments in public, trucks cruising by our homes after midnight with the lights out, lots of middle fingers. I now have a pistol in each of my vehicles, shotguns in two, and shotgun and AR-15 in the truck that I drive regularly. Never hurts to be prepared.