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Back in 2015-16 and living in NYC, I struggled with liberal democrats and trying to be “objective,” about the possibility of a Trump victory. I was engaged into fights, thrown out of establishments as an alleged “Trump” supporter, among other things. I was simply trying to have an ‘objective” conversation, yet none of those blue bubble “idealist” were going to hear any of it, nor was I going to attempt to explain otherwise how wrong they were about me. Or tell them that I was a democrat, or that I have seen this country coast to coast, a little further off from that Hudson River just a quarter mile away, let alone having crossed the continent a few times over the decades – via plane, bus, vehicle, thumb and foot at times.

But then, none of them could have ever known that in 1968, I ran down Main Street, Garden Grove, CA, while Bobby Kennedy’s parade passed through town, en route to a later – early evening speech at the yearly “Strawberry Festival,” Garden Grove Park. That night, myself and neighbors were in our fronts yards and could easily hear Bobby’s speech, happening approx a mile away. And as we listened, the Hell’s Angels and various sects of the Hessian’s motorcycle club(s) had assembled about the Trask Avenue field that resulted from the new, 5 year old GG/22 Freeway, while countless helicopters circled in the sky.

In a better world, as in pre-2008 and during the presidency of Barack Obama, a Kamala Harris ticket  for the democrats may have been a conceivable ticket, but only if there had never been a DJT, #45.  And that changed everything. What is more, is the fact that democrats have yet to come to understand the “reality” in some American’s conscience that the MAGA complexities brought into being after the Obama years. And DJT and the MAGA movement presented a set of circumstances that one just can’t “put the Jeannie back in the bottle,” “toothpaste back in the tube.” The sooner the democrats come to terms with that, the sooner they might have a chance in November 2024. Otherwise, the unthinkable may be upon on us soon enough. 

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