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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Bernie wouldn't have won. But I'm beginning to wonder if we deserved to. Everywhere I looked on the news last night and this morning, I saw the kind of behavior that had me scared as hell of Trump winning. Riots in thee streets. I wanted to puke. Liberals turning into the kind of lawless yahoos that swept Trump to victory. If Trump's real campaign slogan was "Making America White Again" (and it was), the Democrats' reaction is Resurrect the Weather Underground.

Every single person in America of voting age is guilty of putting us into the shit show we now find ourselves in. Democrats are burning and looting like the rule of law, something we were so fucking sanctimonious about, means nothing. Republicans who one by one tried to distance themselves from President Pussygrab are sniffing at his tail like eager puppies.

We have four years of deconstructing America to dread because neither party could manage to get enough people interested enough to put up a candidate who was both electable and not psychotic. So instead, we got Hillary, who most people in America just plain [I]didn't trust[I] and the poster child for bad behavior by someone with the mentality of a schoolyard bully.

Yes, Hillary had some good policies, plans, and experience. But most of America neither liked nor trusted her. And yes, Trump is a racist, sexist, ball of unchecked white privilege. But he gave all the people who used to have to hide in country clubs and dive bars permission to spew their hate in the streets.

After seeing Democrats stopping traffic in LA and Chicago and burning and looting in New York and New Orleans, it's clear that we really aren't all that much better than them.

Note that I'm not accusing anybody on this board of behaving like animals. I'm just observing that we are lying with the same dogs as the Republicans and we have apparently picked up the same fleas.

Stevenson was right. In a democracy, people pretty much get the government they deserve. Maybe instead of pissing and moaning, or thinking we're any better than anyone else, all of us can actually step it up, put what we stand for in our day, every day, and demand politicians do the same, or run them off before they get on the ballot in the first place.

I blame myself.

I live in New York and have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. There was a march up Broadway and then Sixth Avenue. I work on Broadway. I have heard of absolutely no looting or rioting anywhere.

TM