Posted on 11/07/2016 6:09:55 AM PST by shortstop
Only one thing is certain about Wednesday morning, half of America is going to be pissed off.
Infuriated, alienated, disenfranchised.
If the winner is known, if the presidential race isn't hung up in some court challenge or Russian hack, the only prediction that can be made with any confidence is that this election will leave about 50 percent of the people in this country feeling like this isn't their country.
The divide will be wide and deep.
And the prospects of bridging it are meager.
But first, who's going to win.
It's anybody's guess.
Reasonable arguments can be made for several scenarios. The polls could be right and Hillary will win before the thing leaves the Eastern time zone. The Trump surge in the polls could push put him just past her and he squeaks it out when they close the polls in Nevada. Or there could be a rumbling subterranean tide, a huge surge of enthusiasm for Trump shown at his rallies but not in the miscalculated polling samples, and he could win in a landslide when they tally up Ohio and Michigan.
The range of reasonable outcomes stretches from a Clinton landslide to a Trump landslide, and any number of hanging-chad situations in between.
Both sides hope for victory, both sides are holding their breath.
And one side is going to be kicked in the ass.
And kicked to the curb.
The first responsibility of the president elect will be to reach out and welcome in. The great challenge will be making peace, not with foreign governments, but with American citizens.
And that doesn't seem likely.
Neither candidate seems inclined to graciousness. Neither candidate seems particularly interested in or capable of reaching out to people who disagree. Trump has spoken more of love, and been less specifically condemning of his opponent's supporters, but his brand has been so destroyed among Democrat voters that the only reasonable response they can have is hatred.
And it seems that a great deal of hatred has been shown by Hillary and her supporters for Trump voters. Election Day isn't a magic wand that makes "unredeemable" and "deplorable" go away, and when you have described your opponents as racists, xenophobes, sexists and Islamophobes as a matter of course, victory doesn't make bygones be bygones.
There is a likelihood that either side will see electoral victory as a justification for its own delusions of infallibility. Wednesday won't be brotherhood and understanding, it will be taunting and end-zone celebrations.
And one side will read the outcome as a giant middle finger in the face. The sense of being disregarded, disrespected and disenfranchised will be enormous -- no matter who wins. Recent years, and this campaign, have exacerbated dramatically social division along the lines of race, gender, religion and politics. Even the things that used to unite us -- God and country -- have become flash points of anger, with both being disregarded and dumped by some.
There is a revolution afoot, and one side is going to lose.
And the losing side is apt to be shouted into silence, defined out of the new America.
In times past, that would have troubled the winning side.
But not anymore. On Wednesday morning, half of America is going to be pissed. And, sadly, that is going to thrill the other half.
In recent days, people have been saying, "Won't you be glad when this is over?"
The answer is, "No."
Because when the election is over, that's when it's going to get bad.
Out of the frying pan, and into the fire.
On the other hand, if Trump happens to lose he will be surprisingly gracious in his concession. But America will never accept Hillary as a legitimate President. She will be a national joke from the day she claims the crown.
Me too. Taking tomorrow and the day after election day. It will take a little time to figure out my demeanor ... definitely never gloating, and not pond that I lost ... i want to strike the right note.
Then I can go home and celebrate or cry as needed!
This article is based on the false premise that it will be a close election, and that “half the country will be pissed.”
Trump will win, and with a mandate-level margin.
Better them than us.
The "Talking [imbecile] Heads" on TV will be livid, The clinton crime syndicate will have lawyers attempting to overturn votes, and meanwhile the clintonite trash will seize the opportunity to riot and loot.
To quote a Billy Joel line: ‘I didn’t start the fire’.
Nothing more to say.
It will mean one half of the country will have to work for their money again.
That’s what will piss them off.
Obama has done all the damage already and is leaving one helluva mess.
disillusion, frustration...
and probably a good hangover...
losing sucks... losing to Hellery? how much worse can it get? maybe I dont want to know...
The suspense is terrible!..... I hope it will laat!
It's more serious than that. We either save America or our country is gone, it's that serious.
Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t pathological, it is an intentional, calculated, pre-planned and financed sabotage of the democratic process, and of the voters will. In my honest opinion, the perpetrators of which should be hung for their crimes against the republic.
I hate the idea of Trump losing, and speaking of that scenario at this point. Personally, I don’t see any great civil disobedience on either side, at least not in the short term. These scumbags that organize such behavior are not stupid, and any attempt to sabotage a Trump victory will spectacularly backfire and empower the Trump movement even more.
It was bad enough when Obama won in ‘12. Just the thought if that evil witch gloating sends me into a mini depression. But the fact is, like it or not, most people felt the same way back then. Even 2004 there was huge amounts of hatred floating around.
For me this time, the overiding disappointment would be that a defeat would signal the demographics are lost for conservatives once and for all, and that a very brilliant, and talented man, owned by no special interests would have been rejected, for one of the most corrupt, despicable cabals that has ever existed in American politics.
And for the reasons in that last paragraph, I can only logically conceive a Trump victory.
The wide spread documented attempts at voter fraud this year are what is different from 2008 and 2012. Clinton cannot win on votes like Obama did. They have to steal it.
You don’t heal a nation divided like ours. One side has to win and the other side has to lose. Progressivism must be stamped out.
If Clinton wins there will be a lot of angry conservatives who will expect their Republican representatives to obstruct Clinton agenda and defend the constitution. But they won’t. They will cave. That’s what they do.
If Trump wins there will be lawsuits filed in dozens of states, “evidence” that the election was hacked and some rioting sponsored by the DNC and the media. They will steal the elections in the courts.
Spot on. There is simply no other way to describe it.
Sometimes illicit, even legal drugs, aren’t the vice of choice that will by treason and criminality. There are other vices one wouldn’t find with just a drug test.
>>How does that differ in any way from the 2012 presidential election? Or the 2008 election?
Because, deep,down, we knew that Obama was a post turtle and could be stopped. We also knew that America was better than him and his voters.
Now we know that Hillary will kill to get her way and that the tide has changed and a majority of Americans are not able to see themselves surviving on their own talent and labor.
This election ends with the start of the civil war. The bullets won’t fly right away, but eventually, violence will come. Historians will say that Wednesday morning was the day that the virtual Berlin Wall went up in the minds of the people.
On Wednesday, one side will say, “F them. We won and they need to get over it.”
The other side will say, “F them. They won and I will never get over it.”
“Never gloating”?
If Trump wins, I’ll be gloating to beat the band. Gloat. Gloat. Gloat!
The period between Nov. 9 and Inauguration Day will be hellish, no matter who wins.
I think that, in the end, Hillary will be inaugurated even if she loses every state. There’ll be hundreds or thousands of lawsuits, and “they” have already put in place the necessary liberal judges to make the rulings they want.
In other years, Supreme Court could’ve ruled correctly but whatever they have on Roberts will stick and he’ll side with them. I HOPE I’M WRONG! I’m too old to move to another country.
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