Trump is a dumpster fire of a human being, but there is one good thing about his tenure -- he is putting an accurate, ugly face on the kind of shit America has been pulling for decades under the cover of nicely groomed Presidents who talk pretty. Glass Steagal went away under Bill Clinton. The Telecom deregulation... Clinton. Super-predators... Clinton. Clinton even reached a deal with Gingrich to privatize Social Security that was derailed by the Lewinsky scandal (thank God for that). Fracking... Obama. Exporting fracking... Hillary Clinton. Wars of aggression... Bush Jr. Drone killing... Bush Jr, but expanded under Obama. 2 undeclared wars to 8... Obama. Arrests of whistleblowers and intimidation of journalists... skyrocketed under Obama. Skulls cracked at Occupy Wall Street but not a single criminal prosecution of "those bright lads" who crashed the economy... Obama. Meaningless words while Israel slaughtered Palestinians and stole land... all of them. Ajit Pai (destruction of net neutrality)... Obama. Spying on Americans... all of them. The list goes on and on. We need to stop swallowing the PR and examine the actual records of the people being offered up as 'acceptable' candidates, or we'll keep sliding downhill.
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