I got up about 4 am just before California tendered its vote having watched until about 1:30. To say I was shocked would be wrong. But I was somewhat surprised at the States that went Red.
I guessed Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan would go Red. But I thought Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin would go Blue.
I will say this. It will take a miracle for both parties to get what has occurred here. They blame thick white and poor men on one side. While the other sees the winning by default of an outsider that was pilloried by the grandees of the Republicans as a good win.
I guessed Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan would go Red. But I thought Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin would go Blue.
I will say this. It will take a miracle for both parties to get what has occurred here. They blame thick white and poor men on one side. While the other sees the winning by default of an outsider that was pilloried by the grandees of the Republicans as a good win.
I'll confess I was totally surprised by the outcome.
ReplyDeleteBottom line... we will work our way through this and survive (and who knows, perhaps even thrive). I choose to be positive and optimistic.
On the plus side if half those celebs that said they'd leave actually do.
DeleteJust keep them away for me.
Two very unpopular candidates and many voted against one rather than for the other. Media types are trying to isolate it into one voting demographic but it's much more complicated (or simple?) than that.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think so too. In general though it comes down to fear and instability, then when you add in lack of hope you have a toxic mix. Once you have those you have the conditions for a very dangerous society indeed.
DeleteIt will be curious how they decorate the WH. Gone will all the Hepplewhite, Chippendale and prissy faced puritans, in will the gold and brocade and mirrors.
DeleteHad not thought of that! Many liken Trump to President Andrew Jackson who also was elected on a wave of populism and, as I recall, held an inaugural party on the White House lawn!
DeleteI am not surprised about either Florida or Ohio voting Trump. I am shocked about Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Those are part of the "great blue wall" that haven't voted Republican in decades!
ReplyDeleteI guess my thoughts are it is a testament to how incredibly weak of a candidate Hillary was if the weakest candidate (in my opinion) that the Republicans can select beat her. Although not looking forward to Trump as a president, I am kind of savoring the gnashing of teeth and wailing going on among the Democrats now that the heir apparent has been denied. I felt the same way about Jeb Bush when he failed to do well in the primaries. I guess that makes me anti-establishment to some degree.
All the pundits are now worried about how incredibly weak our country will be and that Trump will no longer be the leader of the "free world." I say great. I don't want our country or whomever heads it to be a leader of the world. I want us to fall back into some sort of obscurity for awhile and let others take the heat. Even if Trump screws up royally, we still will be a strong country and I wouldn't think to live anywhere else other than perhaps Ireland... for a few weeks.
In my opinion they played it entirely wrong. If I put it like this. Obama was black, and underclass, even if he was far from being one in the accepted meaning of that term. Nonetheless, it could be argued he was connected. How the hell could a US senator, a former first lady of both Arkansas and the US, and Sec of State be the underdog. But that's the undertow of what was being sold. And if you disagreed, mostly by being male, you were the very worst sort of animal. And while few enough people think they are saints, less think they are all that bad either. The Democrats were playing cards in a game that ended about 1978.
DeleteI think your country will be grand on the whole. Those intransigent bunch of nutters in both houses will twist and turn anything that comes out of the WH such it's unrecognisable. The House being nearer the people see things a bit clearer.