(I love this signage; from Cole Camp, Missouri. If you stop and photograph the sign — and you have to photograph it facing west/from the east, otherwise the intersection is the junction of Hwy U and Hwy F, which isn’t very entertaining… — however, the residents are not particularly happy at those of us who take this photograph...)
The sign sums up a lot of feelings right now, but...
Need to get the sadness out, get the fear out, and get the disappointment out.
This country’s been in a worst spot before, quite a few times over. It’s not raining cats and dogs living together yet.
We are, as individuals and as families, about as well (or not well) off as we were this time yesterday.
The crisis that has engulfed the Republican Party (despite the Trump win) is even worst than it was: the party’s embrace of white and male supremacy as a foundation and philosophy of government is now its modus operandi. And headed up by a man who can safely be described as the first grifter president of the United States.
Now — overnight — the same sense of crisis has engulfed the Democratic Party. The age of the pseudo-Reagan pivot, the “centrist” bankster/Wall Street impulse, the “genius” of the Democratic Leadership Council (that lived on in so many well-heeled and corporate-supported candidates after it ostensibly disappeared), all of that is over. They have failed and failed at the hands of Donald Trump, of all people.
That wing and those leaders and representatives of that 24-year cul-de-sac of Democratic politics is now utterly discredited. Now, certainly, they’ll get their face-time and air-time on the MSM, but they only now evidence failure. And they will be mocked for that failure by that same MSM. And they should not be particularly influential here either. Not any more. Getting information out will require more asymmetry.
I don’t run this site (and frankly don’t want to; I don’t have Kos’ skill set in that regard, although my user id is roughly the day after the Big Bang on this site — and the 13th anniversary is coming up very quickly), but my two-cent’s worth is that the site should be about better politics, not just better party dynamics. I suspect that to take care of the former means to take care of the latter as well.
Get Thom Hartmann on as a regular contributor. Get Amy Goodwin. Get John Fugelsang. Get Van Jones. Even get Jon Stewart. And my list is utterly incomplete, because I’m a 56-yo white male. Get the real diversity of prominent progressive/liberal/socialist voices. Quit listening to the loud Wall Street grifters that insist on speaking for the majority of us. There should be a certain partisanship of principle, not merely of party.
The world hasn’t come to an end yet, and I’ve got work to do today that I was going to have to do regardless of how the election turned out. We’ll get through this. We’re all still free to believe in and act towards a better future for ourselves, our children, our friends, and our neighbors throughout the world. Take it one day at a time.
But, for crying out loud, don’t quit.