Chatter And Banter - Politics In North America

This is really bad guys. Buckle up.

By this time next week Rod and Sessions could be out and Mueller shut down. Then Trump subpoena halted. Then Gamble decision then Cohen, Paul walk free. Game over.

Depends on when he is seated.

 

I don’t know.

But that day is much nearer than you think. The precipitous way this country has deteriorated in just 2 years is proof. the resistance to this guy was so energized and mobilized but they just spit in their face and showed them the middle finger and said they are gonna do it anyway... that is extremely worrying. Where is all that frustrated energy and fury gonna go? How will it expend itself? For expend it must. Already we had street fights and demonstrations between anti fa and far right last year but that was confined mostly to college campuses. Now it is worse. People are still quiet because they believe in rule of law and elections and still believe they are gonna be able to ‘vote the bums out’ but that will be proved one way or another in a month. It will be here soon enough. Let us see.

 

I wouldn't be so sure. The country has moved on too , to some extent, that it won't always be a warm welcome to workforce or other such things.

 

@Gauri03,
Maybe I misunderstood. Are you looking to get involved? You have made references to apathy before also but that is not true. They do resistance and protest differently here. And there is very much an active resistance look at the Obamacare fight, M ban, women’s march etc. Thing is people here do it in a more civilized considerate way so lives of regular working people isn’t disrupted. So we don’t have situations like so frequent back home where you can’t even get to work or school in the morning because of some bandh or strike blocking traffic. We still led a normal life for last 2 years because of this, inspite of all the protests.
Indivisible is a nationwide group you can google for nearest one in your city and contact them. You can sign up for as much or as little involvement as you like. Or as fits with your schedule. Could be just making a few calls every week to more active hands on organization and protests. There are other groups too depends on what is your special interest like environment etc.
Right now all the energy is into the midterms but these are also all active.

 

@Gauri03,

When questioned about the great success stories of the people of Indian origin dominating the information technology world, Sam Pitroda, the former adviser to the Prime Minister on technology mission responded, "The Indians are the best in accepting changes and very well suited to the ever-changing conditions be it economic, social, political, business, technology and many others. They neither resist nor desist. They adapt and integrate."

Back in India, post independence, we remained a nonaligned socialistic nation by blindly following the advice of the Nehru family. We had 25 year treaty with the communist nation. We listened to the dictate of the world bank and formed an open market economy in 1991 and welcomed capitalistic principles into the country. Prior to that, we allowed the British who came to sell tea through East India company to conquer our nation. The resistance came in the form of Sathyagraha/Non-cooperation movement without any force. Prior to that we have let Moguls to invade India and rule for several years. Alexander the Great conquered India as well. Our tolerance dates back to thousands of years.

Viswa

 

The problem with all the resistance and opposition is that it is largely in the blue states that anyway won't vote for Trump. It won't matter if 10 million more people vote for the Democrat next time if Trump is able to replicate his electoral formula.