I was likewise concerned during the Bush years and things have not really improved.

There is simply too much money in politics.

We’ve had two Presidenrial elections stolen from us within the past 18 years. And all that goes with it. The Supreme Court should be 7-2 Democratic appointees at this point. The national debt should be gone by now. We never would have gone to Iraq or Afghanistan. The safety net should be way stronger. Environmental protections should be tight as a drum. Voter suppression should be a thing of the past. And so on and so forth.


W never should have been allowed to be President. Тяцмр certainly never should have either.

Perhaps I should be more than just worried.

Republican voters don't care that Russia is colluding with Republicans to get them elected. Republican voters have been convinced that Russians are better than lazy, deadbeat, baby killing, snowflake, subhuman Democrats.
The Republican base votes against Democrats, votes against their own best interests.

Yeah I agree we need to get money out of politics but we also need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.

That is huge. Outside of that I feel pretty good.

How did this Whitaker guy get to be Acting AG without Senate confirmation? If there is a vacancy Rosenstein should have moved up, why didn't he? How is it that Trump can just put someone in a position, who is accused of fraud by the way, without following the rules? The reason I am hearing is that Trump is allowed because Whitaker will shut down Mueller. How much of what I just wrote violates our democracy?

You seem to have missed the cornerstone of it.

You can't have both.

Just like when capitalism crushed China's communism.

Thanks to little Putin and the Kochs, America seems to have accepted it. Yeah, well placed propaganda.

And the stock market ...worse December since the Republican Great Depression...knows it's a bad idea too.

The leaders adapted to a market economy.

I'm not sure what you mean by market economy. All economies have markets, even slave economies.

If China is allowing people with capital to invest and make money off their money then they are using capitalism.

Though I agree with you that the leaders are the ones reaping most of the rewards. Some of them have more money than little Putin ever hoped for.

And has little to do with democracy.

I think some may confuse capitalism with democracy?

a capitalist economy. I use to argue that you can't have it both ways. You can't have Communism and capitalism working in the same economy. Communism is about sharing everything with every citizen. There is no ownership. It all belongs to everyone. It discourages ownership of property, especially the use of capital by individuals,... that's the communal part of Communism. What most people mean when they say capitalism and Communism in the same economic system, is Socialism and capitalism in the same economy. There is some socialism in the Chinese economy.

Socialism allows for the private ownership of property. The true meaning behind Communism is everything is shared and nothing is owned. So, how are they sharing and not owning in the political arena? Do the people get to vote? I really don't see any Communism in China anymore. They just throw the word around and hope no one looks too closely.

Anyone who values our democracy and has a pulse should certainly be alarmed by now. The 2020 election is going to be so so so important in our fight to maintain our democracy. States and Federal will both be critical.

Mon centre cède, ma droite recule. Situation excellente, j'attaque

We have never had what I would call a really well functioning democracy, but it has done relatively well by world standards over the course of centuries. America has been through many dark periods. What type of healthy democracy allows "Jim Crow laws" to persist for decades let alone slavery itself?

But yes, I am worried. Our democracy is now undergoing yet another of its periodic "stress tests". We've survived others before this. But that doesn't preclude the possibility that this is the one we may utterly fail.

That's me