Comments | rushthatspeaks: Let's Make This The Eighties

rushthatspeaks

Let's Make This The Eighties

Nov 10, 2016 21:28

The comparison I am seeing to the election of Trump, over and over again, is to the election of Reagan. An actor, a Hollywood personality, with few genuine political chops, who failed ever upward until he reached the White House; as a president, he literally joked about nuking Russia (have you heard the recording?), became a war criminal so many ( Read more... )

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nineweaving November 11 2016, 04:59:24 UTC

Thank you for that sane analysis.

*hugs*

Nine

teenybuffalo November 11 2016, 05:31:20 UTC

This is useful; thank you.

Shit, I dunno, maybe I'll run for public office myself. I would previously have held back because of lack of experience and understanding, but the election of Clownpants McFuckstick has shown me that no experience or awareness is required for a successful campaign.

sovay November 11 2016, 07:07:27 UTC

This is the eighties. Time to make the future change.

Love. Do you want to be Derek Jarman or the Pet Shop Boys?

ckd November 11 2016, 09:57:55 UTC

My retrospective perspective as an Army brat who spent most of the 80s in a target zone and so never had to worry about "life after the bomb" because it wouldn't be my problem:

We went through the 80s with Reagan and Bush 41 (who, despite picking what then was the most laughable VP imaginable, now seems like a statesman compared to his son, who himself seems like a statesman compared to the President-Elect)...and unbelievable things happened.

The Berlin Wall came down. Prompted in part by that, F. W. de Klerk started the process that led to the release of Nelson Mandela and the peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa. A few years later, Northern Ireland had an IRA ceasefire and a peace process moving forward.

I did not expect any of those three things to happen in my lifetime. (I expected an end to apartheid, but only through a bloody revolution. I like the one that actually happened much better ( ... )

dorispossum November 11 2016, 10:11:19 UTC

Thank you for a very rational analysis, esp on the supreme court. I can't see Trump issuing any of the exec orders on equal marriage that you describe, as I don't think he gives much of a fuck on the issue personally. But he knows he has to nominate the kind of judge he promised his base, so he'll do that. As you say, we need to fillibuster like hell on that. And mass protest, of course. Ironically the teabaggers have already modelled for us a method of resistance that, although ugly, works. I worry more about the micro-apocalypses, the daily threats against LGBT people and ethnic minorities by people who feel Trump's victory has given them license. This has already happened to minorities here in UK after Brexit - eg Polish men attacked and even killed on the street. I'm expecting to see an increase of sexual assaults on college campuses (half of young white men voted for Trump), more shootings of young black men, and more mass shootings (though not, sadly, at NRA!). I hope the fightback will be organised, rather than ( ... )