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chhotiiTrump's strategy has pivoted from trying to win votes to trying to incite civil war.
Last night Trump had the opportunity to back away from this, but no: when asked whether he would accept the results of the election, he said "I will look at it at the time." When pressed further on this, he said "What I'm saying now is I will tell you at the time. I will keep you in suspense, OK?"
Trump's supporters are out there talking about civil war, because they don't believe the polling numbers. For months Trump's campaign has been putting out the meme "The Silent Majority Supports Trump". Oh, REALLY?-- Well, OK, true enough, if you discount women, people of color, Latinos, disabled people, people with college degrees, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, and Mormons, then yeah sure, "everybody" supports Trump.
Listen to Trump go on about the "rigged" election and clearly he's now taking the advice of friend Roger Stone who said: "I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly. If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government." In other words, overthrow of the U.S. government.
The peaceful transfer of power is something we take for granted in this country. It requires cool heads, good sportsmanship, and being in touch with reality-- none of which characterize Donald Trump. We've managed to pull it off so far in this country, with only one civil war to date.
People are angry and frightened on both sides: witness the reprehensible and stupid bombing of the Republican party office in North Carolina.
I just want all this to be over. In three weeks this should be all over. But Trump is playing with fire, fire of the could-incite-civil-war type. Ugh, we do not need such "excitement".
Last night Trump had the opportunity to back away from this, but no: when asked whether he would accept the results of the election, he said "I will look at it at the time." When pressed further on this, he said "What I'm saying now is I will tell you at the time. I will keep you in suspense, OK?"
Trump's supporters are out there talking about civil war, because they don't believe the polling numbers. For months Trump's campaign has been putting out the meme "The Silent Majority Supports Trump". Oh, REALLY?-- Well, OK, true enough, if you discount women, people of color, Latinos, disabled people, people with college degrees, immigrants, Muslims, Jews, and Mormons, then yeah sure, "everybody" supports Trump.
Listen to Trump go on about the "rigged" election and clearly he's now taking the advice of friend Roger Stone who said: "I think we have widespread voter fraud, but the first thing that Trump needs to do is begin talking about it constantly. If there’s voter fraud, this election will be illegitimate, the election of the winner will be illegitimate, we will have a constitutional crisis, widespread civil disobedience, and the government will no longer be the government." In other words, overthrow of the U.S. government.
The peaceful transfer of power is something we take for granted in this country. It requires cool heads, good sportsmanship, and being in touch with reality-- none of which characterize Donald Trump. We've managed to pull it off so far in this country, with only one civil war to date.
People are angry and frightened on both sides: witness the reprehensible and stupid bombing of the Republican party office in North Carolina.
I just want all this to be over. In three weeks this should be all over. But Trump is playing with fire, fire of the could-incite-civil-war type. Ugh, we do not need such "excitement".
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Date: 2016-10-20 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-21 01:57 am (UTC)The hung Supreme Court is a really bad thing, and may have been the Republican plan all along with stalling.
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Date: 2016-10-24 01:22 am (UTC)On a broader scale, over my life I've seen more and more talk of the illegitimacy of elections. Pretty much every president since Reagan I've seen decried as somehow improperly elected. And certainly, people on the right don't have a monopoly on decrying the "system" as "rigged".
In regard to the Trumpistas specifically, they seem to be maybe 30% of the population, and they really have been hurt by the changes of the last few decades, probably more than any other demographic. Some of that is losing unjust privilege, but a lot of it isn't, and they're right that the "elites" really don't give a damn about it. And they're also right that the Republican leaders have been pretty much in bed with the Democrats on a lot of issues that matter to them. I'm beginning to think that we need to look at them as another "ethnic group" and start considering affirmative action for them, and what policy changes have disproportionate effect on them.