my hope -- and actually my expectation -- is that the next couple of generations will grow out from under that bullshit. not all children of these people take the medicine. i didn't. with the right encouragement and knowing what the problem is now, my belief is the next generations will have their problems like all generations do but they'll start to retire this lunacy.
i don't begin to believe that 30% is homogeneous. there is a wing of very sick people and a wing of people who are influenced to participate but aren't internally set. between is an amalgam of varying natures, but the most reasonable of those people may abandon that group when it is clear they are capable of great noise but mostly only that. i'm guessing 20% tops is untouchables. country can get along nicely with them back to muttering and shaking fists at the clouds. my hope is that with this issue exposed, it can no longer fester and reproduce in the dark corners.
the gop is behaving as though they haven't been exposed. they seem to think they can do their old slimey tricks and nobody will notice. different world now.
firing mueller or rosenstein would set off a firestorm that is merely bubbling right now. it might be the perfect setting for mueller to spring the rest of the trap.
my theory of the problem begins in the 1600s. i think a significant part of our population descends from a large number of people who were treated very badly, and some elements of the resulting nature have been carefully handed down over the centuries. people who have had to live for generations in very dangerous situations under the thumbs of hateful people develop very serious issues of paranoia. take the sicilians or the romani peoples. they develop extremely strong reliance on each other and reluctance to mix with other people in an ordinary sense.
my belief is that there is a deep illness that probably has no solution. i don't know what we do. my hope is that the younger generations will recognize this issue that my generation never knew existed. hopefully they will find a way to deal with it.
by, bulk of the gop, my assumption here is you mean the rank and file gopper. not to include much, most, or maybe all of the leadership that has been in bed with this all along.
i think you have got it exactly right.
yes, indeed. think back when comey was fired. at that time it was all about potus, and the investigation was probably weeks from the big climax. but comey got the ax and mueller got tabbed to go after whatever he could turn up. immediately the whole game changed. many, many who get pole-axed by this investigation will want to draw and quarter said potus after the dust settles. he got everybody into the mix.
if for no other reason this country owes potus a debt of gratitude. we'll be a different nation after this is completed.
yes, and we are going to see key members of both houses who have proved to be unwilling -- or unable -- to go to bat for the republic hang it up. reason: their time in the barrel is nigh, and the things they've done/have been doing are both kompromat for the rooskies, keeping them in line, and grist for mueller's mill.
the people involved here are among the highest professionals in the legal circles of this country. the way mueller's team has operated without even wisps of leakage is probably how the entire operation will go.