General Discussion

...the Cons played the long game and we fell asleep.

This actually started in the 70's as a backlash to the 60's but really accelerated under RayGun. He was the perfect smiling TV pitchman for the coming Con Superstorm.

Gingrich put the nasty face on it. And the Rapist finished the job - the antichrist TV pitchbot to RayGun's kindler gentler fascism.

The lumpenproletariat is so subsumed by the disinformation cloud that they don't even realize that the Rapist coaxed them into the van.

We are completely fucked here. Down is up. War is Peace. Oceania has always been at war with eastasia.

There is a reason I choose this screen name 20 years ago on DU, right after the theft of Al Gore's election victory.

At that point, this current environment seemed inevitable...