why i am down on democracy this morning

[rampartd]

it seems we were always just a few votes away from electing the kind of barbarian who would burn western civilization to the ground.

[Wounded Bear]

1. It's the risk all democracies share, and how most democracies in history have died...nt

[SheltieLover]

2. Are you, or are you down on the pootinization of the USA?

[rampartd]

4. i never dreamed i would be on the wrong side of wwiii

and a civil war is not much better prospect.

[Hugin]

6. In hindsight, it was inevitable.

Once democracy devolved into finding a “R” on a ballot.

[SheltieLover]

10. The Federalists should have been designated as

A terrorist org long ago.

[malaise]

13. THIS

Rec

[SheltieLover]

14. Thx, Malaise

They have always detested democracy & have been a pain in the ass since before the countty was founded.

[SheltieLover]

8. I hear you.

I'm thoroughly disgusted that this wrecking ball is allowed to continue destroying our country. But beyond phone calls & blackout shopping days, and supporting local mom & pop & Hispanic businesses, there is nothing I can do to stop it.

So I just do my best to ignore most of what is happening to spare ill effects to my health.

[brush]

12. One would think that even the rethug party could do better than that bloviating, megalomaniacal, convict...

but I guess not. WTF? They have no one better that a convicted felon/rapist?

[SheltieLover]

15. The thing is, this is their agenda, their dream.

[Gore1FL]

3. Democracy isn't a bad thing.

An uneducated Democracy, however...

[rampartd]

5. a willfully ignorant citizenry.

[Mister Ed]

7. Willfully ignorant? I'd say jubilantly, joyously ignorant.

MAGA revels in its ignorance.

[rampartd]

9. they only believe in 1 book

and none of them appear to have read it.

[SheltieLover]

11. Many of them are illiterate