The 2016 Presidential election is
over (Praise the Lord!), and, as happens in every election, the public has
expressed their will, and one side emerged victorious, while the other
lost. Personally I don’t see anything
overly complex about that. As per usual
there was a considerable amount of muckraking and mudslinging as well, which I
don’t think is one of the better points in our electoral system. Another point of contention was the
possibility of a “rigged” election, with both sides casting a baleful eye
toward their opponent. Over the course of
the campaign, Hillary raised 1.3 billion dollars, and I suspect spent most of
it. Mr. Trump on the other hand raised
$795 million dollars, and again probably spent most of it. The voters turned out in nearly record
numbers, had their say, leaving Hillary with 60,839,922
votes, and Donald with 60,265,858 votes at last count. Now,
despite having a nationwide total of nearly 600,000 votes more than Donald,
Hillary is not a clear winner, due to the idiosyncrasies of the American
electoral process. Here, the popular
vote of each state selects “Electors” who are pledged to vote for a specific
candidate. (If you win a particular
states popular vote, you win all that states electoral votes.) The number of electors per state is equal to
the number of congress critters sent to the capitol each term, plus three
electors for Washington DC. Ergo Sum,
538 electors determine who will be the next president.
This
year Hillary won the entire left coast, and the northeast as expected, plus a
smattering of central states. Donald
won all the rest, including a few that were considered to be “shoo-ins” by the
Clinton camp. So now the scoreboard
reads Clinton 232, and Trump 306. (270
electoral votes is the magic number.) This somewhat cumbersome system (rather
that a direct “popular vote” system) was emplaced when the framers of our
Constitution made an effort to restrain the more populous states from running
roughshod over the smaller states, and it has worked reasonably well for over
two hundred years. Changing this system
will require a constitutional amendment, which I don’t see happening in the
near future either.
A little more than a week ago the
Democratic Party insisted that everyone accept the legitimacy of the
election. Now however they’ve lost, so
what we are seeing today is that much of the left think that, like so many
other things, the world is a one way street traveling only in their
direction. I guess we can force
ourselves to live with that as long as they don’t get to carried away. This time around however, the kicker is a
whole lot of spoiled liberals, concerned about loosing all their free stuff
are, besides throwing temper tantrums in the streets of our cities, circulating
petitions demanding that the electors change their vote, thus putting Hillary
in office rather than The Donald. Technically
this could be done, as there are no federal laws forcing the electors to vote
as they are pledged. Some state do have
laws that require that they vote as pledged, and I’d think that if they were to
change their votes, they’re going to be in a lot of very hot water when they
get home! (Tar and feathers anyone?)
Since the later 1960’s the left has refused to hold itself
accountable for any of its actions. Having once declared liberal dissent
patriotic, conservative dissent, for the last eight years under the Obama
regime has been called homophobic, bigoted, and racist. Both conservatives and
avowed Christians have been viciously attacked by the radical left, hounded
from their jobs, silenced, and punished for refusing to go along with the
leftist agenda. The left, like spoiled children, demand that everyone follow
their ideal of cultural homogeneity, and is outraged that so many Americans
refuse to go along with their communistic, anti-American, and anti-Christian,
secular agenda.
On November 11th, 2016,
the chickens came home to roost as the American people repudiated the rampant
socialism of Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and the liberal left. As a result radical liberals, appalled that
moderates and conservatives would elect a president who might repeal some of
their cherished social engineering failures, returned to their old strategy of
civil disobedience, mass protests, and rioting. Professional activists who have no skill other than agitation
have trained a large group of people to do nothing but protest. Demonstrating their childish nature once
again, they have flown into hysterics rather than trying to reunite the country
they have been so instrumental in dividing, and it’s quite clear that we are
even more divided than ever. The left
may love humanity as a concept, but they are prone to think the absolute worst
of their neighbors, and have nothing but contempt for those who do see things
differently. That worldview is on full
display in the American streets today.
I was taught by my parents, and in
school, to have faith in God, love of country, family, a belief in American
exceptionalism, our capitalist system, Judeo-Christian values, our
Constitution, a limited government, personal responsibility, economic freedom,
along with our military and police.
Everything on that list, everything we believe in, everything that made
America great, has been under assault for eight long years now, by the leaders
of our own leftist federal government.
And
Hillary Clinton is still here, hoping against hope, to finish the job. She
already publicly stated she wants to be Obama’s third term. Hillary would open the borders wide, to let
in millions of both illegal
aliens and terrorists who have no love for anything in our way of life that
made America great.
Illegal’s no longer come here to
become a part of the American dream, they come for a love of food stamps,
housing allowances, free medical care, free education for their children, free
meals at school, and don’t forget $3,000 welfare payments disguised as
"earned income tax credits," for people who have paid no taxes. Illegals come here for the cradle to grave
welfare state that America has become.
The majority of them will vote for Democrats forever to keep the checks
coming. Checks that require our
taxpayers to foot the bill. That
apparently is Hillary’s plan.
Terrorists come here for one reason only, that of destroying our nation
and our very culture, thus making us a parody of the land they left behind.
In the universe of the Star Trek sci-fi shows, the “Federation” is all
about ensuring that people benefit, and have a role, in the forward evolution
of a wondrous future. This is a concept
that we here on our little “Pale Blue Marble” should seriously consider
adopting for the long term good of ourselves and of our descendants. Well planned and considered progress is
where we will find the utopia of which we dream, we will not find it in
immediately adopting the instant, “feel good” welfare “nanny state” so
stridently demanded by our current crop of unthinking radical left wing
liberals, a nanny state that will only benefit the elites of our world, and
drive the rest of us into abject poverty…
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