Already Gone

I think we're in a heap of trouble even if Hillary wins. Republicans are wanting an apocalypse for various reasons--some want the game to end while they're on top, others the actual four horsemen--and they are as blindly determined as an average jihadi or suicide bomber.

The impulses of ISIS and al Qaeda are combined among them, those of the lower classes and the elites, but Trump has exposed the fault and it's clear that many of the elites will vote for a thug anyway. The religious, economic and totalitarian purists are still under one roof.

But the whole, damn house is shaking and that's not good, whatever some Democrats think, because the collapse or implosion could engulf us all. Yes, I think it's that bad and looming. Consider the Great Recession, a right-wing creation due to a fetish for deregulation. 

Yes, they can mess things up very badly and quickly. If they continue to tempt fate one of these days we won't get away with it. We won't fully recover, that is, and life will never be the same. It will be sad as hell and it is already. The best of what we were is already gone.