Hopefully, this year, we can see it in a different context.
How many times do we have to get slammed by something preventable (or at least mitigable) had we listened to the people who were trying to warn us?
How many times do we have to watch Americans die because Republican presidents ignored what their Democratic counterparts and predecessors tried to to tell them?
9/11 was a horror. I sat and watched it on live TV, and worried about how the idiot in the White House would react.
I was pleasantly surprised when Bush43 rose to the occasion and managed to give us the big national hug we needed at the time. Later, of course, he'd allow Darth Cheney to drag us into a ridiculous war of conquest, and only now, in light of what we're being put through by Cult45, am I coming to realize that Dick Cheney and Donald Trump are almost perfectly aligned morally.
Cheney is way more competent, and acts on a broader spectrum of interests, better able to leverage national policy to his personal benefit, while 45* just wants his piece of the action.
Anyway, I continue to marvel at just how fucked we end up being whenever we let Republicans back in the door.
Maybe we'll finally start to listen to those warnings.
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