General Discussion

(Note: reposted from another thread that died last night.)

And if we let them destroy all that the New Deal--and later programs like Medicaid and Medicare--have wrought, we and our loved ones will rue the day. There will be suffering and death the likes of which this country hasn't seen in a century or more.

Trump's cabinet fully intends to roll back social programs to circa 1890; i.e., there won't be any. Nada. Zero. Zilch.

I have often warned on this board that revolution is coming.

Now that revolution--or more properly, reactionary counter-revolution--has occurred: a James Comey/Putin/mass-media enabled fait accompli from the right. The fascists have taken power.

God help us all.
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

--W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming