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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sun Dec 24, 2017, 12:55 AM Dec 2017

We Cannot Seem To Stop The GOP/Trump From Savaging The Country.

Despite the protests and low polls it seems we cannot stop these mafioso crooks from savaging the country and selling us out to the Russians. We can work to unseat them nest November. That is a long time for them to do more serious damage to the country. Trump could start a really bad war by then with the full support of the GOP.

How do we protect our fathers, mothers, sons and daughters from being used as cannon fodder for the rich? Americans serving in the military are in danger of being sent to a pointless war with Korea or some other entity.

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We Cannot Seem To Stop The GOP/Trump From Savaging The Country. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP
Convert all billionaires to Democrats....that would do it. KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2017 #1
All the "we're doomed" posts are getting tiring... brooklynite Dec 2017 #2
We're too busy geogreen Dec 2017 #3
A politician is the best investment a millionaire / billionaire can buy. YOHABLO Dec 2017 #4

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
1. Convert all billionaires to Democrats....that would do it.
Sun Dec 24, 2017, 01:20 AM
Dec 2017

Seriously, I'm having one hell of a time seeing a way out of the mess we're in, and it's a global problem. Republicans and other conservative-party people around the globe (along with a big sack full of dictators and other despots) control far too much of the world's capital, and hence a disproportionate amount of the media. Not speaking of politicians so much as I am the wealthy class that buy our pols. If we get two steps forward in 2018 and 2020, they will pour huge amounts of money into reversing those gains....and they will.

These are some of the basic big-picture questions I struggle with:
* How do we un-Walmartize our communities?
* How do we reverse the vast economic inequality across the globe?
* How do we deprogram the millions of people who have been brain-washed by evil media moguls like the Murdochs?
* How do we return to a predominantly loving, sharing, unselfish society?
* How do we get more people to start loving and protecting the Earth?

And, it hurts to know I'm now too damn old to make much of a difference!

brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
2. All the "we're doomed" posts are getting tiring...
Sun Dec 24, 2017, 01:23 AM
Dec 2017

If that's your opinion, no point sharing it since there's apparently nothing that can be done.

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