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Originally Posted by bronco67
I will give you that...everything is turned upside down this time and pretty fucking weird. But nothing as weird as Donald Trump being president will happen. That would be another fucking planet kind of weird...and a whole other level of scary.
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What would you be scared of?
I remember I was 18 years old when Reagan took office. And I was a diehard Democrat (all my family were Democrats since I was a kid in the South, and back before Reagan the South was all Democrat territory).
There was no internet. So I got all my news from the CBS Evening news and the editorial section of Rolling Stone magazine.
I was scared! Rolling Stone's writers had me convinced that Reagan was an addled old man (age discrimination is what we call it now...they would never say that about 73 year old Bernie in this day and age). And that he was going to stumble in to the war room in a daze and launch nukes at the Soviets and the world was going to end.
But none of that ever happened.
Same as when Clinton won the White House and all the conservative talk radio hosts declared it was the end of our country as we know it.
It didn't happen.
Keep in mind that the Presidency is only the executive branch of govt.
It is kept in check by the Legislative and Judicial branches.
Also keep in mind that Trump is a very successful guy. He just might fool you with what he could do for the economy.