(November 5, 2016 at 10:24 am)Brian37 Wrote:(November 5, 2016 at 10:05 am)Crossless1 Wrote: I'm sanguine about the electoral outcome. Trump's path to victory is so unlikely at this point that a win would make the end of Rocky look like a documentary, by contrast.
But Brian's right. His loss will just be the beginning of a nightmarish shit storm that won't end until Clinton has ridden off in the sunset, if even then. I frankly dread where this is going.
Huh? Not sure what you mean by this.
My point is that all this started decades ago. I really believe the GOP has been bitter since Nixon got caught and since that old white money has made politics a gang rather than governing. I also think his rise is decades of Morton Downy Jr, Jerry Springer "Real World" WWE mind rot crap. Add to that fucks news fear mongering which was going on long before even Obama ran the first time.
I am talking about a very dangerous tone in politics that neither party should employ, but only one party has been responsible for allowing to get to this point.
Just yesterday a Trump supporter shouted "execute her". That is the type of shit you see in North Korea and supporters of Hitler.
We're on the same page. I know this started decades ago. I've railed on that very point time and again on these forums. But I think a Clinton win will usher in a period in which the rhetoric becomes even more heated than it has been to this point, and the political discourse will coarsen even more. Hell, I'm not even talking exclusively about 'tone'. I think we could be headed to a place in which blood is shed -- not a revolution or anything that dramatic, but seemingly random acts of self-appointed 'saviors' attacking their enemies for the alleged greater good. The Right in this country has more perceived enemies than you can shake a stick at. Meanwhile, they keep losing. It's only a matter of time. A frightened, wounded animal nearing its death throes is likely to lash out violently at the very people who are trying to help.
