Yeah, I'm more in the realms of "paralyzed by utter dread, punctuated by bursts of anger, alleviated only by occasional flights into mindless levity."

I don't know that they have many. The Republicans have figured out that voting in midterms and statehouse elections also counts, but Democrats seem to struggle with the idea.

I prefer to blame people who voted for Trump.

If only concern weren't a finite resource.

Hell, wait'll they find out they can't afford groceries any more if Trump *does* manage to deport huge numbers of undocumented immigrants.

No, MLK wrote this, in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail:"

There's also something a lot more antidemocratic in spending a month saying that our electoral system is "rigged," threatening to jail your political opponents, encouraging your supporters to punch protesters, and hinting that you won't accept the results of an election if it doesn't go your way after talking about…

After the way Comey worked out for the Democrats, I wouldn't hold my breath for any bipartisan or "compromise" appointments anytime soon. (Not that Republicans have ever done that in the first place.)

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I dunno. The end of the Civil War was pretty damn good until Andrew Johnson fucked things up.

It is more appropriate than you know to invoke the Alamo; one of the things that set off the Texas revolution was the Mexican government's efforts to abolish slavery.

Don't you get it yet? The problem is that we fully understand their thinking.

Don't bother. You *were* personally betrayed.

The problem isn't that the newspapers get it wrong. The problem is that the people you are talking about don't read newspapers in the first place.

And that was enough for them. Which says everything, absolutely *everything* about what they really are in the end.

It's funny how the people who shout loudest for states' rights are the ones hurt most by local funding and control of schools.

Shall I tell it to the part with the 3/5 Compromise?

The problem is that what the voice cried out was, "Fuck the n******rs and w*****ks the the f**s and the b****es."

Some of us care about outcomes, not processes.

If only there were some sort of widely available method of acquiring perspectives and even making human contact with a wide, wide range of people from across the country, even the world. Then such people would have no real excuse for their provincialism.