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Nov. 11th, 2016 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lantairvleaI voted, I did my civic duty. Some might say I threw my presidential vote away because I cast ir for a third party candidate, but if people are continually guilted into thinking that a third party can never win then it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy and never will.
I'm not a fan of either people who ran for president in the major parties. That's just the way it was this time. There were some good people at the start of the primaries in there, but they weren't loud and obnoxious enough to be given the time of day and "the masses" tend to not dig deeper than their Facebook feed or standard news coverage.
I am pretty disappointed in how the supposed Hillary Clinton supporters have reacted with riots, burning things in the street, and protests. It's a bit ironic that they are doing exactly what they feared the Trump supporters would do if they had lost. I know it's the work of a few disturbed people and there's always those happy to jump in and take advantage of the angry energy in a large group of people and steer it towards destruction. And I say supposed becaused I would like to think that those who are being irresponsible and violent are not thete to protest, but just cause trouble.
But either way, this is what we have to deal with. Don't like it? Get involved. The reason we seem stuvk with crappy politicians is because good people rarely stand up and go for it and then the rest of us fail to vote for them.
I find it interesting that voter turnout was so low. Despite her popular vote numbers Clinton received, according to some reports, fewer than Mitt Romney did last election cycle. What would have happened if all of those apathetic voters had shown up instead of sitting out?
So the country voted in a showman of questionable moral values. Thank the founders of this country for their God-given inspiration to have checks and balances. There's only so much he can do in four years. We may have a Republican legislature, but a lot of them are not kindly disposed to President-elect Trump. He's probably going to get one Supreme Court Justice appointed, and we can hope the rest of them hold out for four years. We'll survive, it isn't the end of the world unless we make it so.
I'm not a fan of either people who ran for president in the major parties. That's just the way it was this time. There were some good people at the start of the primaries in there, but they weren't loud and obnoxious enough to be given the time of day and "the masses" tend to not dig deeper than their Facebook feed or standard news coverage.
I am pretty disappointed in how the supposed Hillary Clinton supporters have reacted with riots, burning things in the street, and protests. It's a bit ironic that they are doing exactly what they feared the Trump supporters would do if they had lost. I know it's the work of a few disturbed people and there's always those happy to jump in and take advantage of the angry energy in a large group of people and steer it towards destruction. And I say supposed becaused I would like to think that those who are being irresponsible and violent are not thete to protest, but just cause trouble.
But either way, this is what we have to deal with. Don't like it? Get involved. The reason we seem stuvk with crappy politicians is because good people rarely stand up and go for it and then the rest of us fail to vote for them.
I find it interesting that voter turnout was so low. Despite her popular vote numbers Clinton received, according to some reports, fewer than Mitt Romney did last election cycle. What would have happened if all of those apathetic voters had shown up instead of sitting out?
So the country voted in a showman of questionable moral values. Thank the founders of this country for their God-given inspiration to have checks and balances. There's only so much he can do in four years. We may have a Republican legislature, but a lot of them are not kindly disposed to President-elect Trump. He's probably going to get one Supreme Court Justice appointed, and we can hope the rest of them hold out for four years. We'll survive, it isn't the end of the world unless we make it so.
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Date: 2016-11-11 05:21 pm (UTC)I can't help but imagine how Bernie would have motivated the masses.
I also think that the polls saying HRC would win did not help her at all in this race.
I do hope you are correct about his having a lack of fans in the house and senate - the fact that there is one party in majority for 3 arms of govt is a disturbing concept in terms of checks & balances.
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Date: 2016-11-12 12:40 am (UTC)Polls are so tricky and that probably is part of what kept some people home, but even then most of them were within the margin of error/statistically even.
To my understanding there is a fair sized group of Republican senators and congressmen who are not Trump fans at all. There's also the elections in two years that gives the opportunity to shift the balance in the legislature.