To avoid despair, I go back to my last suggestion: an all-out DEM PR campaign. It's not as if they don't have the bona fides to support it. Social Security, Medicare, ACA, clean water, clean air, consumer protection, etc. - all Dem accomplishments. Balanced budgets, keeping America safe - actually Dems too.

I won't give into despair. I believe a GOP meltdown is more likely than a Democalypse.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich