Wednesday, November 9, 2016

corruption, delusion, and apathy

last night Donald Trump won the election... i'm still in shock.

the guy is an unbelievable jackass.

how did this guy get elected??

here's how it happened:

the left was worried about social issues.  the left was concerned about xenophobia, racism, LBGT rights, and misogyny.

the right didn't care about social issues, they cared about national issues... the debt, terrorism, and the gridlock & lack of progress in government to address them.

neither party wanted to believe their era was over - NEITHER PARTY - but it is.

BOTH parties were defeated last night.   sure, the Republicans hold both houses of congress, but that's more a reflection of the right and their apathy with social issues... had there been a hundred Trumps running for Congress, i think we would have seen similar results there as well.

'but its racism and sexism!!'   - no, it's APATHY.

the people who voted for Trump don't care about social issues.  they are women, they are immigrants, they are black and gay and muslim... and they don't care about social issues.  no one got up yesterday morning and said, "i better go vote for Trump to stop that muslim loving woman, she belongs in the kitchen!"

no one woke up yesterday and decided black lives don't matter, and no one woke up yesterday thinking gay families don't count.  no one wanted to rush to the polls in the hope that they can bring back a rash of hate crimes and a Klan controlled congress.

but 50,000,000 got up and wanted our focus to be security, immigration, taxes, infrastructure, GDP, national debt, and they want social issues to fall back to the states so laws created for people in California don't impact the people in Ohio.

the hate is NOT as profound as everyone wants it to feel.   it is DEFINITELY there, but the small uneducated pockets of hate got their candidate to the White House with the backing of APATHY.

big cities have problems that rural people and suburban people don't care about.

an example:

we are the THIRD worst country in the world when it comes to gun violence...  but if you don't include Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, and New York... we fall, and fall big... like, suddenly we are a peaceful crime-free nation when you don't include the cities.

and last night, people outside our cities spoke.  they don't want the rules that apply to them to be decided by our big cities.  the want our government to focus on issues that apply to everyone, and they don't care about the problems facing big cities.

now, i would argue that a gay couple deserves the right to marry no matter where they live.  i would also argue that sexism and racism are very real, and very much national issues.

but, they are still social issues.  and people outside of cities are tired of our national debt doubling with every new president while we ignore it to address social issues and wars.

with that - the Democratic Party made a mistake.  they backed a politician, and they did it DIRTY.

their chairman lost her job over it, and the media was quick to bury it, but Bernie Sanders should have been the candidate from the left.

instead, the PARTY chose someone, and they chose a political player, someone with a history of scandal from a family of politicians, who's speeches were way to well rehearsed, who had a history of hiding corruption.

they used corruption to put someone in who was known to be corrupt, and the people saw her using social issues to pander for votes.

it didn't help that 8 years ago, Obama said over and over and over that she was corrupt and would say anything to get elected.

the Republican Party embarrassed themselves by allowing Trump to run.  he used fear mongering similar to the Southern Strategy to spin up focus on him, and it worked.  hopefully, we will be smart enough to not see a similar end result.

just as Bernie should have been the Democratic candidate, John Kasich should have been the republican candidate... and really, i believe that if Bernie had been the Democratic choice from the start, the Republicans would have chosen Kasich.

but... instead, the Democrats did what they did.  the lemmings got behind her, everyone listened to Katy Perry, and we all thought there was no way Trump could win.

this is what we get.

Trump said he wants the states and local governments to make their own decisions on social issues.  some will say this is rolling us back to the 50s, but i would suggest that this is an opportunity for liberal America to define themselves.  create utopias, and be the example for the nation.  when cities prove that gun control works, the nation will follow, and so on.

the good news:  FIVE more states legalized weed last night.  if they're anything like Colorado, we will have tax income to pay off the debt and buy every woman who wants it birth control, and set the example for the country.

for at least the next 2 years, we will be focused on national and economic issues, and social issues will take a backseat.  we need our bridges and roads fixes, it will boost the economy to work on those things, so we may as well take care of them.

for now, everyone has to remember a month ago when everyone left was offended that Trump wouldn't accept his defeat when it happened.  not just the left, we all were shocked on some level - i mean, what??  if you lose then you accept it and you respect who won and move on you jackass!

but, instead, Trump won.  so... we all have to be the better people, be the socially upright, accept it and respect who won.

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