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In what surprised all the pollsters and spin-doctors, Trump won decisively.
I think ALL need to take a deep breath.... remember that Democracy (for all its faults) is the best system there is..... the USA is amazingly resilient..... God is still alive and well...... and that we do not have a Dictatorship - there is a Constitution and a balance of power....
I think this election was amazingly NOT about issues but rather:
1. Lesser of evils. These are the two LEAST LIKED candidates in nearly 200 years; all along this was a "lesser of two evils" campaign. Exit polls show that the electorate simply concluded that Hillary was the greater evil, the less trustworthy, the more disqualified. Pathetic, and we do need to consider how we ended up with this choice, but it was the choice set before us. People chose what they felt was the LESSER evil, the LESSER bad choice.
2. ANGRY! This too was a consistent theme. Americans are angry, the percentage of Americans who feel we're headed in the wrong direction, that "Washington is broke" is higher than at any time since polls have studied that. Bernie Sanders tapped into that on the Democrat side (but lost the nomination), Trump (and to a lesser degree Cruz and Carson) tapped into that on the Republican side and Trump got the nomination. He simply become a symbol, an incarnation, a representative of that anger (and he tapped that very, very well). A great majority of Americans feel Washington is broke..... Clinton is Washington, a product of Washington, the Incarnation of Washington and that hurt her (Obama campaigning so hard for her underlined her Washington identification).
We now need to PRAY and work together to make this work. Not only for the sake of Democracy but for the sake of America. We are a deeply divided, angry country.... we need to heal.
While I didn't vote for Trump, I DO hope he'll appoint good Supreme Court judges (the only reason my Dad voted for him).... but many have been elected and prove themselves far better than expected: Truman, Kennedy, Reagan recent examples. Let's pray and work such proves to be the case with Trump.
My half cent.
- Josiah
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In what surprised all the pollsters and spin-doctors, Trump won decisively.
I think ALL need to take a deep breath.... remember that Democracy (for all its faults) is the best system there is..... the USA is amazingly resilient..... God is still alive and well...... and that we do not have a Dictatorship - there is a Constitution and a balance of power....
I think this election was amazingly NOT about issues but rather:
1. Lesser of evils. These are the two LEAST LIKED candidates in nearly 200 years; all along this was a "lesser of two evils" campaign. Exit polls show that the electorate simply concluded that Hillary was the greater evil, the less trustworthy, the more disqualified. Pathetic, and we do need to consider how we ended up with this choice, but it was the choice set before us. People chose what they felt was the LESSER evil, the LESSER bad choice.
2. ANGRY! This too was a consistent theme. Americans are angry, the percentage of Americans who feel we're headed in the wrong direction, that "Washington is broke" is higher than at any time since polls have studied that. Bernie Sanders tapped into that on the Democrat side (but lost the nomination), Trump (and to a lesser degree Cruz and Carson) tapped into that on the Republican side and Trump got the nomination. He simply become a symbol, an incarnation, a representative of that anger (and he tapped that very, very well). A great majority of Americans feel Washington is broke..... Clinton is Washington, a product of Washington, the Incarnation of Washington and that hurt her (Obama campaigning so hard for her underlined her Washington identification).
We now need to PRAY and work together to make this work. Not only for the sake of Democracy but for the sake of America. We are a deeply divided, angry country.... we need to heal.
While I didn't vote for Trump, I DO hope he'll appoint good Supreme Court judges (the only reason my Dad voted for him).... but many have been elected and prove themselves far better than expected: Truman, Kennedy, Reagan recent examples. Let's pray and work such proves to be the case with Trump.
My half cent.
- Josiah
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