says <\/a>we have to regroup, keep on fighting and he\u2019s right. But I\u2019ve been fighting in one way or another since I was seventeen and it\u2019s been many, many years of struggle. It hurts to see so much that we and our parents gained lost little by little until tonight when the country fell victim to the Father Coughlin of our time. It\u2019s hard not to mourn for the American Experiment which may, finally, be irredeemably debased.<\/p>\nBut\u00a0 it may not make that much difference in the long run. After all, Americans elected a scientific illiterate who is too ignorant to understand what he doesn\u2019t know, and gave him the power to determine energy policy during a crucial period of climate change that, if mishandled, could threaten global survival<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>A vulgar, colossally ignorant, TV reality show host will be the next president of the United States. The Republican mafia rode his coattails to retain control of the Congress, insuring that he will face little or no opposition in the exercise of his whims as long as their donors get what they want \u2013 low taxes and compliant government regulatory agencies. The obscenely rich folks who have for many years been planting the seeds that grew into the coming Trump administration may find the blooms they have fostered garish, but they will get a Supreme Court that will insure that the incipient American oligarchy will keep on keeping on. And the evangelicals will probably get to restore back-alley abortion.<\/p>\n