Presidential election, 2016

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(12-27-2016, 11:15 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(12-27-2016, 06:35 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

Of course, the Republicans in the House won both the popular vote and the number of seats.  I guess that means the House Republicans are the ones with the mandate.  I'm happy if the Senate and President become a rubber stamp for whatever gets through the House.

Do you have any idea of what will be rubber-stamped?  Most likely it will be an ideology that holds that no human suffering is in excess so long as the economic elites get what they want. By the end of the Trump Administration, 95% of the people will be suffering for 2%... which is how things were in Russia under the Romanov dynasty. You can also count on those elites doing everything possible to ensure that their people never lose another election that will in any way trim their power.

We will not have domestic tranquility unless it is enforced with the usual mechanisms of a brutal police state. Does anyone want to live in something like Pinochet's Chile?

...Of course the Establishment failed. The one who ran as the exemplar of the Establishment at its best lost to someone who ran hypocritically as a populist and then latched onto the most rapacious and reactionary elements in American life. Donald Trump has done nothing to win over people who voted against him.

All that his brutal new order will give us is more work for much the same pay -- and people will have to work to exhaustion just to survive because all the added work will do is to enrich the Master Class.

If I were born thirty years earlier I would emigrate, and I would take my kids with me, even if to a much poorer country. The American Dream morphs into a nightmare as Donald Trump becomes President.

I consider suicide a possibility some time during the next four years. I am too old to be a workhorse, and I expect the mind-numbing awfulness of a culture made for semi-literate types who read the National Enquirer  to offend all of my sensibilities.