My heart breaks to think of where we'd be now with President Harris.

[NNadir]

It would be very much like 2009, the thrill we had when President Obama took office.

Really, the psychological pain has almost left me paralyzed.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Actually we would be still in the middle of a divided country

with propaganda continually coming from the new media, particularly Fox Noise and from the Magats still in elected office.

Don't get me wrong. She would have done a lot but like Biden, she would not have received credit for it.

[NNadir]

5. I really didn't give a rat's ass about their insipid whining.

I enjoyed having a literate, highly educated, thoughtful leader, a great man, a true representative of the best of America.

Now we have the worst. A rich corrupt ignorant Queens, NY hillbilly.

[GulfofMexico]

16. But democracy would be alive, and so would . . .

America's world leadership, the stock market and our savings. So would education, health care--including Medicare and Medicaid--Social Security, unions, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights, DEI. We wouldn't be losing many top scientists and other intellectual leaders. Immigrants would be safe. Protesters wouldn't be swept off the streets in KGB-style kidnappings, and there would be no illegal deportations. An idiot like RFK Jr. wouldn't be fanning the flames of measles outbreaks and other insane health issues. We wouldn't have a FOX News host as secretary of defense and using Signal to share military attack plans with journalists. We wouldn't be cozying up to Russia and Putin and mockiing the courage of Zelensky and Ukraine.

My gawd . . . the whole world would be an infinitely better place with Harris/Walz. And every time I think of that I become physically ill. The MAGA cult has stolen my country by choosing Evil over Good. It's that simple. As Cory Booker has said, it's never been about the right or the left, it's always been about right and wrong. Given that simple choice, US voters chose Wrong, and all of us decent human beings are suffering as a result.

I will NEVER forgive any of them. NEVER.

[W_HAMILTON]

22. Incredible post, thank you.

Also add in millions and millions of student loan borrowers wouldn't have had their monthly payments increased while having their chances of their loans being forgiven significantly lessened or outright eliminated.

Fuck a divided country. It has been for decades and will continue to be regardless of who is president. Give me a competent and functioning government that implements policies that benefit the vast majority of us over yet another federal clusterfuck of an administration brought to you by the Russian puppet.

PS - our country is still divided -- it's just also completely fucked up now, too.

[PittBlue]

2. Me, too.

I was so sure we would have a happy ending. Everyday the news gets worse.

[Ocelot II]

3. Yes, it's just crushing.

I'm trying to get un-crushed, going to one of the Hands Off protests tomorrow so I can feel like I'm doing something. I participated in protests more than 50 years ago, didn't think I'd still have to do it now that I'm old.

[Irish_Dem]

7. We have learned a hard lesson. The battle between good and evil is constant and ongoing.

[NNadir]

10. I wish i could day we learned something but I'm increasingly more cynical.

[Irish_Dem]

11. I have learned evil is very real and staring us in the face every day.

And shockingly, no one seems to care but a small group of us.

[LuvLoogie]

4. America has never reconciled or faced

the karma born of its destructive inhumanity. We have never excised that cancer. Humans are losing this planet. It is matricide.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Many Americans did not want a predictable, consistent, competent leader.

They didn't want a humble public servant who worked for the people.

They wanted excitement, drama, entertainment.
Someone who was just like them and hated anyone who is not a white Christian male.
Who would exact revenge and humiliation on the libs.

[NNadir]

8. It was a coalition of the ignorant, the stupid, the racist and the greedy.

In short all of the worst of the worst banded together to put together a small majority.

I forgot to include the members of the American Christian taliban.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yes the very ugly American appears to be the new normal.

[edhopper]

12. My heart breaks when I think about

a President Humphrey, a second Carter term, a President Gore and a President Hilary Clinton.
We have too many voters who are just stupid assholes.

[boonecreek]

13. And too many registered voters

who just don't give a crap. Why bother to register if you're never going to vote?

[SocialDemocrat61]

14. Where would we be if we had

President Gore in 2000 or President Clinton in 16? Be sure to thank 3rd party voters and everyone who stayed home on election day in those years.

[NNadir]

18. Good points.

[betsuni]

15. But eggs. But Gaza. But she didn't distance herself from Biden on "The View." But we don't know her. But we want change.

BUT WE'RE STUPID.

[NNadir]

17. That about sums it up. History, should it continue to exist...

...will be mystified as to how and why the United States committed suicide.

[thought crime]

23. This is Not America

You are right to use past tense. I don’t think historians are mystified. It happened in Germany, too.
The market system failed to offer real solutions, and the political system was weak and corrupt, giving way to an evil despot leading a cult bound by ignorance and emotion.

[Oopsie Daisy]

19. I wonder if those who were shouting Killer Kamala (and Genocide Joe) are happy now?

I wonder if those who were promoting and encouraging the uncommitted movement will be primaried and voted out of office along with the MAGA and GOP fuckwads. Those blowhards and loudmouths were all over the place before the election... shitting on Democrats, the party, and our nominee... but now? Where are they?

[MineralMan]

20. Yes. I can easily imagine where we'd be.

It would look nothing like the place we are currently.

Once again, too many people missed their chance to make this nation a better place. That allowed another large group of people to elect a man who is making it a worse place. Much worse.

Will we ever learn? Although I hope we will, I am no longer confident that we will.

[edbermac]

21. With a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican Supreme Court?

They’d be holding impeachment hearings on Day One.

[Jack Valentino]

24. Probably still complaining about the prices of eggs and Doritos---- except NOW

it is TRUMP's "TRUMPFLATION" fault....

Everything else, yeah, it would be better, what with the lack of "total insanity" and all that...