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.
What exactly does “stamped out” look like to you, GG2?
I agree with your first two sentences. I do question the 3rd and want to know what that looks like.
I personally believe that the BEST outcome from where our republic is at this point is an amicable divorce.
If the urban cosmopolitans on the coasts and upper great plains/midwest really want a multi-culti people’s republic, I say let them have it. Let them have so much of it that they will be screaming for relief from their utopia in 20 years...
Regardless of who wins the voters of the losing candidate will not accept the results.
US working people will go to work. If the others want a fight, a fight they will get.
Well, maybe the journalists will go into a long hysterical fit.
The coach potatoes will go back to their soda pop and TV. And they will have a rude awakening the day the check fails to arrive in the mailbox and they have to go to work.
Trump will gladly give them a construction hard hat — but the rest they have to earn.
I agree.
And if Trump loses it'll be pretty much the same thing but from the other side.
The difference is the MSM will give voice to the screaming left.
The MSM will mute the voices of the right.
The MSM is the primary enemy to the Republic.
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.
I think this author will be surprised by Trump. He doesn't understand Trump's brash style: he can be confrontational, but he knows when to moderate his position to achieve results.
I don't expect Trump to kowtow to the left, but I don't expect him to antagonize them, either. But, the left will still have TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), so they'll nbe on the attack, constantly. And, the lamestream media will be supporting them.
Looking back at the election, Trump's attacks have been aimed at the people that attacked him. He attacked the political class in DC that everyone hates. He attacked external threats to the US: extremist Islamists, illegal immigrants committing crimes.
He didn't attack Hillary voters -- at least I don't remember him doing so. In contrast, that's been the basis of Hillary's entire campaign: calling Trump voters "deplorable", "racist", and almost every pejorative I can think of.
Hillary has poisoned the well, and the people she attacked will never support her. Compromise would be impossible, and with the Republicans controlling the House, her hands will be tied. We'll see more unconstitutional executive orders, and the courts will be busy.
Any candy-ass coward who runs now isn't worth spit on the ground. Earn your birthright, Americans!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless America (and Texas)!
If Trump wins, Dems riot for a while until the State no longer supports them - then the crack down on the violent and slow withering of the non-violent because the financial incentives are cut.
If Trump loses, the BLM violence, the SJWs attacking conservatives, WILL get worse and stay that way. And the conservatives organizing against it will be blamed for their self defense.
Anyone remember the 2004 election, the attitude is very similar.
Agreed. I've been saying for some time that November 8th is not the end. It is just the beginning.
I fear you are correct. As Assange said in his latest interview "Trump won't be allowed to win". It truly will be a situation of It's not the votes that count, but who counts the votes. And with the DHS and other gov't agencies controlling the voting process ... unless Trump wins with something like 65% or more, it will be called for Hitlery.
I would hope that a secessionist movement would start soon after the election. We truly do not have anything in common with the other side. This country really needs to be broken in two ... without hostilities. I am sure that both sides would be glad to see the other go their way.
That is why I included that patriotic Americans will begin, on 10NOV2016 to plot, scheme and plan their next move.
Lock and load.
Molon Labe.
Nota Bene: All my personal weapons have been lost in a terrible boating accident on Lake Michigan while duck hunting.
The Obama machine stole the 2012 election. Make no mistake.
The leftist leeches would panic...who would pay for laziness and non-contributing existence? They wouldn't have our tax money.
Good point. It's kind of difficult to convince undecided voters in suburbia that Trump supporters are the "dangerous racists" when you surround yourself with an organization that encourages blacks to murder policemen, burn cities, and organize mobs to attack white people. BlackLivesMatter is still out there agitating, but the Democrats are trying to keep their antics under the rug until Wednesday.
Yep, and so did the mass shootings that were started to further their gun control agenda. Once that worked in Trump’s favor..tada no more mass shootings.
As much as we knew Obama was a post turtle coming in, he at least arrived with a [mostly] clean slate. He had nothing to recommend him, and almost nothing to condemn him (though what there was, was significant). We knew he was voted in for one reason alone: color. That was something we didn’t like, but we’re used to living with color-driven politics, despite some of us being “color blind”.
(What we didn’t expect was 8 years of him being an Islamic operative.)
Hillary, however, is a long-known quantity. We know she cares nothing for the job itself, only wants the power, sees POTUS as a prize and not a sacrificial service. We have _extensive_ evidence now of what we’ve long suspected, and know full well that she heads a hardcore corrupt (even treasonous) power structure. She’s fully bought off by tacit friends & outright enemies of the US, who expect her to come thru on what they’ve paid enormous sums to buy. Insofar as she does have any sociopolitical motivation (not a “true believer” like Bernie, but her chosen course when having to act), she’s squarely communist.
Obama was, as far as we knew, little more than a left-leaning idiot selected solely because of his appearance & speaking style.
Hillary is, as far as we know, the demonstrably traitorous head of a massive crime family with communistic intentions.
Absolutely, there is no doubt in my mind that's what happened. Donald Trump has put everyone on notice that he is not going lay down and take it. Instead of being resigned to defeat he has given Trump voters hope and if we have to stand with him we know he will not fold like a cheap camera. Proud to be a Trump voter!
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