Eins, Zwei, Drei….

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  • November 4, 2016 at 11:39 pm #56840
    TSRF
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    Fear.

    I’m so fucking afraid we’re headed for an American Neo-Nazi Hell…

    I so hope I’m wrong.

    November 4, 2016 at 11:55 pm #56842
    PA Ram
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    No matter what happens on election night–this is a divided country and neither candidate has a chance to unite it. For half the country the president will be illegitimate. If Clinton wins the congress will go to war with her over everything. It will be worse than the Obama years.

    If Trump wins, the congress will stampede through all their dream legislation, deregulate everything, provide the wealthy with even more tax cuts , repeal Obamacare and basically replace it with nothing, make a play for social security, probably cut medicare, pour billions into the military, stack the Supreme court and create a bigger divide between rich and poor.

    It’s going to be ugly.

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

    November 5, 2016 at 9:15 am #56862
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    PA Ram wrote:

    No matter what happens on election night–this is a divided country and neither candidate has a chance to unite it. For half the country the president will be illegitimate. If Clinton wins the congress will go to war with her over everything. It will be worse than the Obama years.

    If Trump wins, the congress will stampede through all their dream legislation, deregulate everything, provide the wealthy with even more tax cuts , repeal Obamacare and basically replace it with nothing, make a play for social security, probably cut medicare, pour billions into the military, stack the Supreme court and create a bigger divide between rich and poor.

    It’s going to be ugly.

    PA,

    I agree with all of that. But, I think it’s important to remember that neither party, and neither candidate, has half the support of the country. It’s not anywhere close to that. We’re a divided nation, yes. Extremely. But it’s not really a division into just two equal or close to equal parts. Trump got something like 19 million votes in the primaries, and if every registered voter cast their ballot in the general, it would still only be roughly 60% of the country. Of course, and especially in recent years, we’re lucky if 50% of that 60% shows up.

    To make a long story short: Typically speaking, the Dems and the Republicans, respectively, will get something like 25% of the electorate. And, again, the electorate isn’t much more than half the country anyway.

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