The MSM did NO VETTING of this man. The low information voters voted for: tribe, "cool", youth, history, guilt, hope, and change. They were duped, lied to and co-opted. Are you living through a quiet coup?
I think the situation is actually a lot worse than even you or I realize. In foreign affairs America's enemies are on the march in Asia, Europe, the Magreb, and the mid-East. And they march with impunity. America's allies are scared, confused and, increasingly, isolated. In terms of foreign policy, this regime has completely fallen apart. Policy is constructed on an ad hoc basis.
Domestically, the problems are even bigger. Government provided economic statistics are skewed for political purposes. In other words, they are false. The stock, commodity, and bond markets are all manipulated. Individual freedoms are being eroded on a daily basis. The press is a propaganda arm of the democrat party. Certain ethnic groups are given special privileges as a matter of policy.
If you sit back and ponder for a moment the enormity of the situation, you might start stocking canned food. Your country is in the most trouble I have ever witnessed. And I remember Eisenhower.
My first real political memory is the JFK/Nixon campaign for the presidency. Our family supported Nixon, so I remember conversations with the neighbor kids when we walked to and from school. They were basically good years to grow up in. The economy allowed most anyone to work who wanted to, churches were full, schools used rote memory, and baseball was king.
Even incompetence, such as the bay of pigs, was real incompetence and not behind the scenes betrayal.
Now, I’ve little doubt barry is betraying the nation and strengthening the hand of America’s enemies and weakening the hand of America in every conceivable way so as to leave the nation vulnerable and incapable of responding to our enemies.
Canned food, land, seed, bullets.
The view must be very clear from where you sit. Many Freepers are still having cognitive dissonance on some deeper level. A good analogy, last fall a burglar kicked my front door in. As I heard the cracking and thunderous noise — very quickly— my brain scanned for every experience it could recall to “normalize” what it was processing. Ofcourse, it could not. A very similar thing is happening here. The normalcy bias is so strong with Americans — it is taking them a very long time to accept what is clearly playing out in their lifetimes.