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In reply to the discussion: A NYT opinion column that nails it. [View all]Cosmocat
(15,092 posts)Even going back to 2016, the choice when he has run has been between a highly competent, compassionate and decent public servant (Hill, Joe and Kamala) and a completely deranged and corrupt sociopath.
And, the results have been nearly similar all three times.
It is a 100% binary choice - good versus REALLY, REALLY bad.
So, sorry, those people who don't get to the polls and vote for civility, reason and democracy, not just for POTUS, but all the way down ticket, at the very least are willing to accept what is coming. Or, more to the point, only about 30% of this county care about these things enough to take a half hour or so out of their lives two day a year to safeguard them.
And, it goes long before DT - going back to electing all the tea party loons, going back to electing W, and reelecting him after he was asleep at the wheel when terrorists were slamming planes into the WTC and Pentagon then lying the country into Iraq, going back to the ushering in the likes of Nwet and how they spent the 90s doing little omre than trying take down Bill and Hill, going back to Reagan, heck, electing Nixon, TWICE, indulging McCartyism ...
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