Dear Millennials: Welcome to the Real World

After much thought I now think I understand your plight. You were living in the Matrix and have suddenly been unplugged against your will. You voted to take the blue pill and stay in your warm little safe space but you were forced to take the red pill instead. The real world is a harsh and ugly place where Communism and Socialism have caused the death of millions upon millions of people. The real world does not give you participation trophies or insulate you from being offended. In the real world nothing is free and actions have consequences.

In the Matrix you've never known a president other than Obama. The media never told you about his scandals and unconstitutional executive orders. You were continually told how great a president he was and how any decent was racist. The public schools never taught you about our history or how and why our government works the way it does. A prime example is all of the people that believe we live in a democracy. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule and that's why the left wants to eliminate the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. Mobs are easily controlled by lies and propaganda.

The college system radicalized you by vilifying Republicans and capitalism all while pushing failed economic, political, and social policies. It also charged you fortunes for completely worthless degrees.

The media and Obama have convinced you that being out of work and having a rotten economy are the norms. You believe that bigger government and more taxes will solve all of your problems. Without a true understanding of our history and how government works you are easily convinced that there is no right or wrong and there are only gray areas. You are told that your feelings matter more than facts. That's why you are triggered when facts contradict your feelings.

The facts are that you've never been told the truth about Obama, the Clintons, or Donald Trump. You weren’t told about Bill Clinton’s impeachment, all the women he sexually assaulted, or his many trips to Pedophile Island. You weren’t told that Hillary Clinton lies about everything including stupid things that are easily disapproved. You weren’t told that the women accusing Trump of assaults were paid to do so and they later recanted their claims. You were only told how frightening he was and that the world would end if he was elected. You have been manipulated into believing that Hillary was a wonderful person that only cared about you and was easily going to win over that evil Donald Trump. You didn’t know that the polls were oversampling Democrats by 12% or more. You weren’t shown the Hillary rallies that only had a few hundred people where Trump had thousands. You probably didn’t see the Tim Kaine rally where 3 people came. That’s right, 3 people. The media either turned a blind eye to these details or willfully deceived you.

So the bottom line is you have a right to be mad about this election. However that does not give you the right to go out and assault people, block traffic, or destroy other people’s property. Don't blame the people that gave you the red pill. Instead blame the people who gave you the blue pill to begin with, lied to you, and didn’t give you the tools you needed to understand and cope with the outcome.

Millenials still don’t get it, and I doubt most of them ever will. Trump won because Millenials sat this one out. They could not stand Hillary, and the WikiLeaks about how Bernie got scroooood were the kiss of death for her. But they would not vote for Trump either, having consumed the Kool-Aid that doing so made you a racist.
Next time the Dems will run a younger, more vigorous version of Bernie and they’ll clean-up. - Buckeye McFrog

Next time they’ll be facing an incumbent, so they’ll be at a bigger disadvantage. The millenials did turn out for Hillary in the end too; young people and minorities were her only reliable voting blocs.

Another factor will be that the Democrats have a thin bench; their ranks have been decimated down-ballot. ‘Course Obama had no credentials besides his race and his (D), and that didn’t stop him. But as you say, incumbency will be a significant factor. And as with Reagan, Trump is following an economically destructive Democrat - and if he is fairly competent he will seem like a genius. He also has the advantage over Reagan, not only of having majorities in SCOTUS and the House as well as the Senate. And with a little early success, he stands to pick up a serious increase in the Republican margin in the Senate since out of 32 seats up in ’16, the pubs have only 8 incumbents to defend. Whereas the Dems will have 24 incumbents to defend - ten in red states.
Trump stands to have little trouble defending his SCOTUS pick - (or picks, if Ginzberg, Kennedy, or Breyer leave the bench) because he published his short list before the election and it was not an issue in the election. Bit late if the Democrats in a Senate minority try to make it an issue after the election is over. Trump could even actually ask for advice from the Senate - something no president has ever really done - about who to select from his predefined list.

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