General Discussion

There is no remedy, no mechanism in the existing political, social and economic system that can stop Trump. We have been watching that play out over the last ten years. He relentlessly and systematically "tests the fences," probing for weaknesses and then he eventually breaks through every time. Barrier after barrier falls to the onslaught. It looks chaotic, and that leads people to underestimate the danger Trump poses.

Trump has unmasked an ugly truth about the country, a powerful and destructive evil core. We have tried to reform it, or deny it, or ignore it. We have put a happy face on it, we have reassured ourselves that it was changing and that things were improving, that there were checks and balances, that there was a stability and goodness in the country.

We told ourselves that the genocide against the pre-Colombian people, slavery, the Mexican War, the Confederacy, the massacres of Indians, African Americans, striking workers, Chinese workers, and LBGTQ people, Jim Crow, the installation and funding, training, and support for brutal police state regimes in Latin America and elsewhere - we told ourselves that those were anomalies, unfortunate and regrettable, yes, but not truly representative of the United States.

That's not us!

Trump said "oh yeah? We'll just see about that. Hold my beer."

There is no going back now, no restoring of the old system. Once and for all the murderous "pioneer" white settler circle-the-wagons kill-the-heathens hyper-masculine misogynist KKK project must be ended, utterly and thoroughly.