General Discussion

... I'll turn 80 next year, if I'm not shot in the back by ICE. In theory, us ol' fuddy-duddies have accumulated the wisdom and experience from having circumnavigated Old Sol more than 60 or 70 times, to be able to make well-informed decisions that affect – and hopefully benefit – all of us. But then, because of the perverse, and mistaken belief of some, that ignorance is just as good as knowledge, we end up suffering the capricious and malicious whims of a mentally unstable, and pathologically selfish narcissist in the person of Donald J. Trump. He is the worst thing that's happened to this country since the Civil War. He is a hateful, petty, and vindictive bully with the moral compass of a rabid hyena. It going to take years, if not generations to undo the catastrophic harm he has inflicted on America. But he is also the product of a centuries-old rationalization that accumulating untold wealth somehow makes someone inherently better that those not so wise in their choice of parents, like little Donnie.
Liars, thieves, and child molesters are running this circus at the moment, but the center will not hold, as they say. Their arrogance and grotesque incompetence will be their undoing, and the clown car filled with billionaires not content to wallow in their wealth, but instead, crave dominion over the lives of others, is going down, and it's gonna go down HARD.
It will fall to us to clean up the mess they've made of things. And Gawd help anyone who tries to carry on their diseased legacy; we've had enough of assholes that decry DEI, eschew empathy, and condemn being "woke", when they don't even know what the fuck means.
Let conservatism take its rightful place at the Dark End of the sociopathy spectrum, and banish Republicans to political Siberia until they see the error of their ways, and try to redeem themselves by endeavoring to be decent people for a change.
Sigh... but I ain't gonna hold my breath in anticipation of such an outcome.