New Yorkers let Trump know it isn't going to be easy to take the country

Niemoeller

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. 
"Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. 
"Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. 
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
-- MARTIN NIEMOELLER, German pastor

If there is one lesson people rarely seem to learn from this famous quotation, it's that when you live in a country where the government starts coming for people, never think you'll be spared.

Eventually, everyone is a threat to a paranoid ruler.

Depressing Trump, too mild winters and three wonderful grandchildren

Random thoughts from a disorganized mind:

I've been feeling extremely depressed lately. Most of it is that I'm still coming to the acceptance of the fact that the American people voted for someone as unsuitable as Donald Trump for president.

I have certainly been unhappy with the results of elections before, but whether it was Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush, I never dreaded the fact they would be taking office. Nixon had been part of the system for the better part of a generation, Reagan was governor of California and Bush was the son of a president and had also been governor of Texas.

Trump?

I suppose it was a perfect storm of sorts, but it came down to voters accepting Trump for something he wasn't.

A successful businessman.

I don't want to waste your time with stuff you already know, but 3,500 lawsuits and at least four bankruptcies would be enough to turn me off.

By of course he has one thing going for him that outweighs everything else in short bus America these days.

Time to figure out a better way -- a more American way -- to vote

"Russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to sabotage the U.S. presidential election, an operation that was ordered by Russian President Vladi­mir Putin and ultimately sought to help elect Donald Trump, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a remarkably blunt assessment released Friday."
-- WASHINGTON POST, 1/6/17


Shocking? Yeah, kind of, but the great surprise here isn't that Russia -- pretty much always a bad actor on the international scene -- would do something like this.

No, the real surprise is that conservatives -- Remember them? They're the guys who always hated Commies -- are in a complete state of denial about it. They hate Hillary Clinton so much that if they learned that Satan himself had done it and Donald Trump was a demon from hell, they would have found a way to justify it.

So they say it's no big deal. The Russians released Clinton's evil emails. Hey, the people had a right to know what she was saying.

Dems need to see voters may not agree with them on 'great candidates'

I have been thinking a lot lately about the recent election, and I have come to the conclusion that Democrats are basically delusional.

Ask yourself this:

Negativity carried the day.

How do you nominate a candidate for president who no matter how talented and capable she is, has pretty consistently been the most disliked person in politics? And have primaries where the only real alternative to her is a New England liberal who, before running for president, didn't even consider himself a Democrat?

And in an election in which two-thirds of voters were dissatisfied with the status quo, how do you nominate a candidate who has been a Washington insider for a quarter of a century?