And now we reap the whirlwind. Happy Holidays.
Just wait for next year. The "buyers remorse" is going to be off the charts.
On the contrary, we will never look back...
There are several countries with safe spaces, socialized medicine, and insane tax rates that you are welcome to move to if you don't want to be a part of the REAL AMERICA.
Well, in the 2nd election in 16 years, the will of the people was not successful in putting the candidate with the most votes on election day into office. In 2000, Al Gore received over half a million more votes than W. The result of that flawed process was the Iraq War. That decision is STILL wreaking havoc in the ME and is at the VERY least partially responsible for the destabilization of the region and the mass migration that is causing problems for Europe.
Now on to this election: Currently, Clinton holds a lead in the vote count which, the last time I checked, is slightly over 200,000 votes. I've read that it may be as much as a million votes by the time all the votes are counted. That's a problem for Democracy.
I partly blame the media for this. It's ironic too because the chances are very good that if the media hadn't constantly broadcasted the message that Clinton was an overwhelming favorite and that Trump had very little chance of winning, more people would have gotten off their lazy butts and gone out to vote for her. The reason why it's ironic is because conservatives are constantly attacking the media.
Now on to Trump: Unless the Trump personae that we've all seen day after day for the last 17 months from the day he declared his candidacy, through the primaries, and into the general election process which dragged on for months was some kind of an 'act,' even the most casual observer should be asking him or herself how Trump will react as president when the attention, and the pressures, and the ongoing national legislative fights and the international competition (and conflicts fail to bend to his will. How will he react?
Here's the not so funny part. The volatile and predictably unpredictable Trump will be following the extremely low key "no drama" Obama. The contrast will be even more striking in light of the fact that Americans have always taken for granted the reassurance of a calm, cool, and collected dispassionate president, regardless of which party he belonged to. Oh, sure, I've heard stories of various presidents having a little bit of a blow up in private meetings, but I've never seen one happen in public. Trump, by contrast, seems to get riled easily which is made even worse because he seems easily baited. Now Trump will be leaving the cocoon of Trump Tower where he's essentially a king, and he'll move into the WH where the pressures are enormous and multiple factions will have their own agendas and consequently will be inclined to pursue those agendas regardless of what Trump says. We'll get the measure of the man before too long, and I fear that it won't be at all reassuring.
If I had to bet (and I've said this before he was even elected), I think Trump will be impeached within 2 years, and it will be almost unanimous. If that does, in fact, happen, I fear he won't go willingly.