Big Squaw Running Mouth didn't buy the seat any more than any other politician. She ran as a progressive in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was the only state to go for McGovern in 1972. It's worse now. Brown had been a state legislator running against a Hilary-like hack (her campaign ads even misspelled "Massachusettes") with an entitlement to power mentality at a time when there was a surge of resentment against Democrat abuse over Obamacare. It didn't last. Now they've bought the premise and don't want repeal.

The wealthy aren't refusing to pay taxes. They minimize them as they always do, with a few moving to different states when there is an extreme difference. A lot of "liberals" don't like what they are getting and leave for other states to vote with the same bad premises elsewhere.

The violent left is a more open resurgence of antics of the New Left of the 1960s and 70s that never entirely went away. It does appear to be getting worse.

Gee, do you suppose the courts are corrupt? Do judges buy their jobs either directly in cash with political contributions to election funds or indirectly, under the table? What? Here in the US?

Even without corruption, the system itself is basically flawed, as I write in https://www.scribd.com/document/36710...

A standby jurist, who sat with the jury but did not vote, was interviewed on Fox. He argued that the jury reached the only decision it could because they did not know all the facts about the murderer and/or were told they had to ignore them, and because of the narrow technical legal formulations of the prosecution. He seemed to be satisfied with the decision. There appears to be a mixture of incompetence and false standards across the board in this case. Atlas is shrugging/being murdered.

There is some sort of emotional attraction to collectivism which seems to be pervasive. It is at the root of this dysfunction. I would love to know WHY collectivism, socialism, fascism etc is so attractive that people put up with it....

The general loss of Empathy is startling.

I often feel like we need a punishment whereby the person is given a drug that prevents them from using their arms for a period of MONTHS. Requiring them to have someone Feed/help them. Make them live in helplessness, maybe to develop some Empathy.

But as you noted... There is no justice. This would be considered TOO CRUEL (by people with questionable Empathy values)... And here we go.

Can someone BUILD the Gulch already. My bags are packed, I am ready to go!

I understand it, and quite frankly it terrifies me. It is Atlas Shrugged - a society which has abandoned the principles of liberty and free markets and is moving toward a socialist hell while the other socialist nations are falling like dominoes economically. Pretty soon, the whole world is going to collapse and we're going to see a world-wide calamity that will dwarf WW II. I earnestly hope I'm wrong.

Regettably: The USofA is already socialist. It is Red Communism that is on the horizon and 1984 is at hand.

First off, I'm not sure there is a much better country, but I could be wrong. For years I have been saying I expect a three fold revolution. A political one ( it began in Ma. with the election of Scott Brown ) which only lasted until Elizabeth Warren bought the seat and now with Trump. Second a Financial one with wealthy people moving their cash and refusing to pay taxes. Lastly a violent one which nobody would want.
I only wish the courts would apply the laws of the land and put these felons away for good.

The only thing that I can come up with is that by letting this scum out it enables the family members of the victims access to trash for vengeance.

I can explain it. The date is 1792 and the place is Paris, France. The États généraux has been shut down and replaced by a more constitutional body. 1793 follows where all political discussion is resolved by the guillotine.

It makes no sense. It seems to me that the left is so hell bent on destroying this country that they will do anything to create anarchy. Troubling times we live in.

abaco (one of the islands I did not visit when I sailed in the Bahamas)
any way our society just like the country is going down hill quite rapidly.

Agreed. The Forgotten Man says it all. This Man is a dying breed and Communism is winning. They have our schools and media in their pocket. The useful idiots are running the show. Our once great country will regress to the lowest common denominator in society and we will be sheep run by wolves. Probably more feudalism than anything else. And then, the masses will rise and history will repeat itself.

We are strangers in a strange land because our ship
has sailed leaving us to drown.....How sad!!

I often find myself saying out loud, "At what point does somebody stand up and start kicking ass?" If that tortured kid was my son's tormentors they wouldn't get off free...if you know what I mean.

I admit it makes me want to get more isolated... And, more and more, I am entertaining establishing a place in another country.

I believe the election of Trump was the last gasp of a dying country. Trump, regardless of what people think personally of him, appealed to a segment of the country that did not like the road we were going down. Unfortunately, with the one-sided press, the resistance groups, and now all the sexual harassment stuff going on the future looks bleak. I think we are headed down the path to socialism. Rand said that she saw nothing but destruction ahead for the United States... unfortunately, she was right!

I've long felt like I was stranger in my own country. It's almost as if everything we have held dear has be set aside in favor of those things we loathe, like someone is pushing us to see how far it can be taken before we explode. The fact that this illegal literally got away with murder of an American citizens is appalling, but sadly nothing new; it happens everyday with/without the spotlight of a court case and national media.

I question whether we can right this ship.

Kate Steinle was murdered in San Fran Sicko, Kalifornia, the city and the state explaining to me why bleeding hearts want to make nice to a Hispanic illegal repeat offender felon.
Did the kidnap torture take place in Chicago? If so, the autistic teenage is white and his sadistic tormentors are black. Maybe the judge is black.
Me dino recalls how O, when he was the not so great yet powerful, pardoned several black convicted felons because he felt his race gets picked on.
Are these two cases~well, three, including the former Racist-In-Chief's skin pigment pardons~indicative where society is headed?
Maybe not. Still, we could still be going down the tubes anyway. For one thing, is the swamp really gonna get drained? Or will it drown us?