This is the most insane election in my lifetime

[DSandra]

I'm an older Millennial, and It's just appalling to me that an insurrectionist, a rapist, a good buddy of a pedophile, a pathological liar, a Hitler wannabe, a friend of a right wing dictator, and a peddler of hate, scapegoating, and insane lies like "They are eating the dogs" as well as someone who is clearly madly delusional is being voted for by so many people, let alone is able to get this close to the White House again. This is utter madness! Bring an American from 25 years in the past to now via a Time Machine and they would faint at how far we have fallen!

[kerouac2]

1. Insanity

Shameful. And seemingly getting worse every day because Trump is worse now than he was before.

[Blasphemer]

2. 25 years? This would not be surprising to me...

By 1999, Newt and his ilk showed us exactly where the GOP was headed. Given how the Clintons (especially HRC) were treated, seeing Trump and MAGA would not have surprised me if you transported me 25 years.

[DSandra]

5. Fine, 30 years

[markodochartaigh]

15. There is a lot that we just don't talk about.

Nixon tanking the Paris Peace Talks so he could win the presidency. Reagan's henchmen dealing with the Iranian mullahs to keep the US hostages so that he would be elected. George the First pardoning the Iran-Contra thugs on Christmas before he left office. The common view that Bush the Second won the most votes in Florida without mentioning the thousands of voters thrown off the rolls by the company that the Republicans hired.

When you just keep sweeping everything under the rug, sooner or later the dust bunnies become dust leopards and they eat your face.

[PCIntern]

3. Yes...unbelievable how far we have fallen

Gary Hart was ruined by a woman sitting on his lap.

[markodochartaigh]

16. Of course that was a set up by Lee

Atwater the Republican operative.

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/trail-mix-was-gary-harts-downfall-orchestrated-it-might-not-matter/article_1f9bf400-3f02-5c89-9296-79de9584da64.html

[Linda ladeewolf]

4. I will agree

It’s insane that trump has this many!

[Ligyron]

6. It's insane.

It's not like his victory would make any of their lives any better either.

[DSandra]

8. But he is sure to destroy many of ours

[calimary]

7. Hard to understand, that's for sure.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Fox News and Murdochs...

[littlemissmartypants]

10. It's a form of group hypnosis.

I'm not joking either.

Their candidate studies and esteems evangelical preaching techniques. I have read too much about this not to believe that what we have been seeing is very close to a type of "Jim Jones" phenomenon.

And it's terrifying.

[Center Left]

11. I wish George Carlin was still alive

Imagine what he would have to say about these past several years

[Kennah]

13. He'd be telling us not to vote

[keep_left]

18. Here's what he said on Olbermann's show. I think this was a couple years...

...before Carlin's death.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219613728#post25

"This country is finished!"

[Kennah]

12. Germans on Twitter said this in 1933

[mn9driver]

14. 24/7 Propaganda works.

When the oligarchs were divvying up the Russian Republic after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they made sure that all broadcast and cable media was owned by them.

Because the average Russian gets all of their news from these sources, Putin doesn’t even have to cheat to win elections. They willingly vote for him. When an outsider gets too popular, see what happened to Navalny.

If we don’t get that propaganda under control somehow, it WILL be the end of our system. If not this time, then somewhen not too far down the road.

[PatrickforB]

22. Ours is owned by WALL STREET and the billionaire parasites. Fucking billionaires. Fucking Russians. n/t

[surfered]

19. 1968 was tense, 2016 was a shocker, but knowing what we now know about Trump...

…And how close the vote may be, 2024 will be extremely tense. So far, I’ve had two glasses of wine, a Xanax , and currently smoking a bowl of Kind Bud, and I’m still nervous.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. It's called the "bigot spigot" for a reason.

[PatrickforB]

21. How is this not an effing LANDSLIDE in favor of Harris? n/t

[appalachiablue]

27. ++

[Emile]

23. Never underestimate the power of the Magic R with

the wilfully ignorant ass kissers.

[PatSeg]

24. You are not alone

It is still beyond comprehension.

[mtngirl47]

25. I'm sick to my stomach

I worked as a poll greeter today for 12 hours and had such a positive, happy day....I'm shocked to see these numbers.

[liberal N proud]

26. I thought 2016 was, then 2020 topped that and now!

[iluvtennis]

28. I with you @DSandra - it is just UNBELIEVABLE that this convicted sexual assaulter, racist, wannabe dictator, etc, etc

is winning all of these states.

[LymphocyteLover]

29. 100%. Insane. What the fuck are we doing????

[Tom Dyer]

30. 65 years in the past.

And what happened to this country? I’m so awfully sad right now.

[quakerboy]

31. I get what happened with the youth

They were mad about palestine and decided to sit it out.

But what the fuck happened with Gen X.