Look, this Trump thing is just out of control. I am not sure if people are just mad enough about perceived slights/racism/or whatever or if the media outlets for the right have just amassed so much trust and faith from their viewership that the sheep are willing to follow blindly. There’s a old Navajo saying: Sheep is life. I take that to mean that we have a service to the flock, and we lead that flock in a direction that is for the betterment of the earth.
But we don’t.
Thanks in large part to how good the republican machine is at churning out bullcrap, we find ourselves in an increasingly dangerous situation. It feels a lot like we jokingly let the kids climb into the driver’s seat to play, but then the little fracker’s strapped in, turned on the car, and drove away. Nobody has any real control over the situation. The party is too scared of decimating it’s lock step philosophy to fix the problem. Instead they are clearly looking to gain what they can from the present administration over the next term and a half and then put in a candidate they can sell to the American people.
The democrats? Still wishing Obama was coming back or AOC could come forward. Neither is happening, and like with Trump, the party has a real problem rallying behind Bernie Sanders, who represents the only legitimate chance the dems have of energizing the so-called base.
Here’s what I think: The republicans have a much larger base. Why? because the voting republicans–the ride or die folk–are the older generation of Americans who take the time to vote for one. This is compounded by gerrymandered districts that limit the voice of the mass of democrats. The older dems find themselves in voting districts where power is both concentrated and limited. The real power is in the young vote, and they aren’t coming out yet.