Monday, October 12, 2020

Getting Back Into..What?

 NOW THAT THE PRESIDENT is back on his apparent feet, and ready to hit the campaign trail once again, what should our expectations be? That the polls are correct, as they almost always are, and that his fifty four to forty two point behind-ness daily manifest into a slow burning election loss, as several million people vote every day, and make the polls a reality? Or maybe the president will once again, as he did in 2016, won narrow popular vote margins is a few crucial swing states, and be reelected in spite of losing the actual popular vote by a wide margin. ironic, since Donald Trump, with his consistent history of misbehavior, including constant lying and constant slandering of people who oppose him and the evident corruption within his administration, is precisely the sort of person the electoral college was established to prevent from coming to power. This was made evident in all the writings of the founders, in their designing of the constitutional system. Hamilton and Madison both, though political rivals, believed it was necessary to put a layer of protection between the masses of ignorant people and the selection of the president, so that in the event that the voting masses chose a reprobate or criminal to become president, the electoral college, with calm deliberation, could override their choice, and make a better selection. and yet, the electoral college, and only because of the electoral college, did Donald Trump become president, as it bypassed the will of the people to elect a better, highly qualified person, Hillary Clinton, arguable the most qualified candidate for president in American history, despite the slanderous attacks conservatives made against her for decades. And Donald Trump has overwhelmingly proven that the people were right, and the electoral college was wrong. If Trump wins, which at shit point seem unlikely, we can expect for more years of contentious chaos, bad behavior, and bad policy. What can we expect if he loses? That he will will spend his final, lame duck days in office having one huge MAGA rally after another, screaming hatred and lies, spreading disease with unmasked closely packed crowds of  of angry, bitter, poor loser  sycophants, vowing to somehow return him to office? Will former president Trump spend the next four years of the Biden administration holding his Hitler-esuqe rallies, trying to wrest attention from Biden?  Will he pledge to seek the Republican nomination in 2024, and to return to the White House after a four year absences, after the fashion of Grover Cleveland? We'll have to wait and see about all that, but we can be assured of one thing; Donald Trump is going nowhere. he has long been addicted to the spotlight, to the public's attention, and he will do whatever it takes to retain it. WE can rest assured that Donald J. Trump will not go quietly into that good night, and live a quiet anonymous life of solitude, contemplation, or philanthropy. Its hard if not impossible to see him out building houses like Jimmy Carter.One way or another, he'll find a way to raise  hell and make trouble and gain attention, probably spewing idiocy in front of a camera on some insipid vacuous reality TV show, with his adoring fans dreaming of his return to power.Our best choice is to get the popcorn popper warmed up, sit back, and wait for the show to begin, once again.

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