It's really a shocking and stunning surprise, we are left to process this election, make sense out of the country, and our place in the country.
Donald Trump is the next president of the United States. In addition, the Democrats failed to shift the Senate and the Congress remains red. The GOP controls all three major branches of government, the country is red.
Polling outfits failed in all ways, and future polls will be viewed with great suspicion.
As I type, the DOW is down over 300 points, slightly better than the levels it approached last night. At one point the DOW was down roughly 700 points. So let's just say this presidency is starting off with a bang. Who knows how it ends today and over the next period.
Global warming is already here, and the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions were indeed minor. That little bit of effort will be off the table as a Trump presidency is about a return to oil, coal, and gas. Let's not forget that the new president believes global warming is a hoax.
We wonder how the USA will change. I'm not making any predictions right now. Take a step back, process the results as best as you can.
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Sadly, I don't even think Bernie would have beat him. He would have done marginally better in the electoral college , but he would have still lost. Whatever. The GOP though has also been splintered somewhat by this man. It's no longer a midly Conservative party it's now a White Nationalist far right party. Fascism has arrived or has it? I suspect some Republicans will resist this man if he tries to take the country into the alt. right Universe. Maybe. It feels a lot like it must have felt in 1933 in Germany doesn't it? Canada anybody.
There is a foreboding sense going on. This is a true story - about 4 miles from where I live there's some farms. Periodically they spray their fields with manure. So I walk out the door earlier, first time today being outside the house, and it smells like shit outside. I took it as a direct metaphor as it were. I'm trying to keep my emotions out of it all truthfully. What's the point getting all worried and anxious. There's still a lot of positive people out there.
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