I’m sorry. I was probably out of line. You just seem to be incredibly depressed.
I’m not depressed, though I am sad. I can’t help but to be sad because I have seen the country that I grew up in die before my eyes. I have seen a country of free people vote their freedom away, while other people in the world who have no freedom stand in line to vote even though their enemies hack them to death with machetes while they do so.
But my emotion is not relevent to the current situation here in America. I believe that we have no hope of successfully addressing this until we accurately frame the circumstances of our problem and how we got here.
Let’s just say for the sake of argument that next election we fix this by voting in a bunch of republicans. That will fix nothing for two reaons. First the enemy will simply reshape itself and continue with its systematic plan until the opportunity arises for it to implement more of it in permanent fashion. They are patient, peristent and highly motivated.
Secondly, the republican party stands for not a damn thing. It does not even stand for its own election. I’ve never seen anything like this. I mean it’s like they suffer from battered wife syndrome or something.
As far as I know, there is essentially only one way to “win” a game of chess in which your opponent has already placed you in checkmate.