I missed this one before, and not because I had barricaded myself in with comfort food and alcohol- yet. In the words of a certain maitre d' at a certain Chicago high-end dining establishment in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "I weep for the future."
Cereally, I want a do-over for all of 2016 at least. The Orange Scourge, his robotically inhuman and inhumane sidekick (all of his voodoo dolls are female), Ghouliani, Beware! Bannon and the other cronies? If the country and planet were truly on a precipice, I'd be thinking obit prep time. Won't go there. Sadly, I'd say it's a watershed momoent in numerous ways and we've turned a dark corner for a dangerous path of destruction. Chinese fortune cookies in bulk?
And, yes, there are that many stupid, ignorant, hateful, narrow-minded with a tall order of racists and sexists. The only thing worse to them than a man of a different or mixed race is a woman of any kind having the top job. Common denominator. I honestly only met 1 in all of the canvassing in my general 'hood. As for the strongholds. Gulp.
The so-called underbelly is truly disgusting, putting the UGLY in ugly American in the biggest, boldest font.
OTOH, it now seems that more people voted for Clinton. So Trump was right about one thing (and one thing only) when he said that the electoral college is a disaster for democracy...
(Not that the situation is better in Belgium where in the last elections, the party that hadn't gotten the most votes did something it had sworn it never would, allied itself with the flemish far-right, which gave them the numbers to get into power.)
Sigh.
The first few days of the transition certainly don't fill me with hope for the future... (And I don't care what he said, it's clear that he went into this expecting to lose, and he didn't have a plan for what would happen if he won.)
So true re: popular vote, well in excess of 1MM and headed well over 2MM when CA, WA, OR and other absentee and provo ballots counted. That would be the widest gap in history and give Hillary more votes than Gore in his pop vote win in '00 and more than Bill Clinton received in both victories. I'm sure you've heard how it's all spurred a review of Electoral College, something which happens more often than election years, and the movement to bypass the Constitutional Amendment route to having more states sign on to agree to have electors vote according to popular vote. Once there are enough states to total the 270 electoral votes on board, the measure is enacted. We shall see
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I'm sure you've heard how it's all spurred a review of Electoral CollegeI have indeed--journalists around here tell the masses that it's unlikely to happen because it would mean amending the constitution. To which a columnist replied that democracy is a fluctuating form of governement, constantly redefining itself, meaning mostly that the people is sovereign and that if enough citizens want something to be changed, then it bloody well better happen
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Cereally, I want a do-over for all of 2016 at least. The Orange Scourge, his robotically inhuman and inhumane sidekick (all of his voodoo dolls are female), Ghouliani, Beware! Bannon and the other cronies? If the country and planet were truly on a precipice, I'd be thinking obit prep time. Won't go there. Sadly, I'd say it's a watershed momoent in numerous ways and we've turned a dark corner for a dangerous path of destruction. Chinese fortune cookies in bulk?
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The so-called underbelly is truly disgusting, putting the UGLY in ugly American in the biggest, boldest font.
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(Not that the situation is better in Belgium where in the last elections, the party that hadn't gotten the most votes did something it had sworn it never would, allied itself with the flemish far-right, which gave them the numbers to get into power.)
Sigh.
The first few days of the transition certainly don't fill me with hope for the future... (And I don't care what he said, it's clear that he went into this expecting to lose, and he didn't have a plan for what would happen if he won.)
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