I firmly believe that America has no concept of what is in store. We are on the cusp of a radical transformation of society, government and culture. Radical, extremist and corrupt conservatives have gained control of the entire government (assuming the ----- win the House as expected). The ramifications of this cannot be understated. What they will be able to destroy either cannot be restored or it will take decades, if not centuries (of an unknowable future) to restore.

As an aside, I heard an interesting take yesterday, it may be in America's best interest if the ----- control the House as it will allow for the business interests to have more say-yes tax cuts for them, deregulation, corruption, but it will limit the impulse to give ------- unilateral authority and MAY protect some of the guardrails.

The ironic thing of this situation is liberals' best defense may be federalism-state's rights. They are the most prominent bastion against a white christian nationalist federal government.

OF COURSE leftists will fight, there is no option, that is what ethical people do. I suspect we may have to pick our battles carefully. Palestinians and Ukrainians and likely Taiwanese? So, sorry, we cannot protect you. Trans folk? That will be an incredibly tough one-human dignity in red states, so sorry, no. Blue states possibly protecting some dignity, maybe. Your healthcare, so sorry, the extremists don't think you exist and have no use for you except as a target of derision.

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Beyond that? Immigrants-that will be the first battle which will set the tone for the next 4 years. Do we fight for immigrants or do we fight for the natural born children of undocumented? How do we separate the issue? Will ------- stop after a token few thousand are deported? Who knows. I SUSPECT that that issue will be used as a smoke screen that will blind us from the fire house of crap that ------- will unleash.

Do we focus on reproductive rights*? Since more than half of white women voted for -------, is that even a winning issue? Do we give up on that right and focus on the rights they will go after next-same sex marriage, contraception, freedom FROM religion, free speech, freedom of the press?

One thing is certain, Project 2025 is coming, and that, right fast. The destruction that will wrought to the progressive society will astonish people. We are looking at a new gilded age combined with techbro libertarian.

Jon Stewart interviewed Heather Cox Richardson on his podcast. Ms. Richardson is a brilliant historian and she had a fascinating and prescient view of the results of this election. The amalgamation of -------'s coalition is reminiscent of a white, patriarchal, strict classism of the late 1800s and early 1900s in the south, where white men ruled over black people, women with unchecked authority. All the talk of tradwives and otherisms reeks of this. Instead of supporting post-neoliberalism (the free market that has shifted all the wealth to the richest-50 trillion by some accounts, that has occurred since Reagan), which Biden was achieving-(reversing the wealth gap, reversing the flow of money from the poor to the rich**), which logically SHOULD be preferred by the working class, the oligarch, patriarchal gilded class won. This was achieved by the propaganda machine that gets people to believe utter lies-------- is for the working class, undocumented immigrants are a threat to the economy, trans people are coming to eat their cats. this got working class people to once again, vote against their own financial interests. And a combination of that propaganda apparatus and power that the republicans yield will likely prevent the normal correction after the inevitable republican disaster.

Yeah, we are ------

*-keep your ears out for the name Jonathan Mitchell as related to the DoJ or AG. If he is appointed anywhere in the DoJ in a position of power, nationwide abortion is gone.

**-did you know that Biden oversaw the FIRST wealth transfer DOWNWARD in decades?