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Demovictory9

(32,493 posts)
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 03:44 PM Aug 2022

Are you more hopeful (for America) today than yesterday morning?


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Yes overall
17 (71%)
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7 (29%)
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Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
1. We still have all of the problems we had the day before yesterday.
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 03:48 PM
Aug 2022

I will feel better when and if I see some movement on the prosecution of traitors; if we don't get that, then there is no hope, and we will be doomed to face the same mistakes of failed nations that came before us.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,134 posts)
2. Yes AND No...here's why.
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 03:53 PM
Aug 2022

First, is the person in charge of certifying elections in KS certified the props result? Is the Secty of State in KS a trumper?

See, here is the problem. In states like AZ which will elect an election denying rightwing fascist to Scty of State (most likely the repub will win) has no intention of EVER certifying ANY election a repub loses. Surely we understand that.

So yes it helps if in a race the Dem wins by a huge margin, but if people like this guy are in charge will it matter?

We will see.

SWBTATTReg

(22,201 posts)
3. I'm always more hopeful for America, and not just because of one thing positive happening,
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 04:01 PM
Aug 2022

America is made up of thousands and millions of different things all coming together into one thing, one Country. While I like to think that everyone is more hopeful that the future will hold better things for all of us, there are some that don't seem to feel or act that way.

That's when I feel that the America I know, and the people in it around me, simply ignore such riff raff, who all they can do is yell and scream obscenities at others, throw a temper fit (like t**** the worthless), and reaffirm that they don't really care about America in truth. While all of us are proceeding calmly and quietly to the next hurdle to overcome.

JustAnotherGen

(32,027 posts)
4. No
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 04:08 PM
Aug 2022

We are at the start of the 3rd black civil rights movement - and at 49 years old - I live in as dark a country as my grandmother did in the 50's - when she was my age. We have a long way to go thanks to the GOP.

NewHendoLib

(60,034 posts)
7. No. Big Lie supporters keep winning elections. the orange asshole still gets to spew his
Wed Aug 3, 2022, 04:31 PM
Aug 2022

shit. I will start to be hopeful again when political criminals start to see jail time.

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