Beginning of the end today, I fear. A HRC win pretty much ensures further marginalization of the right, as well as those disenfranchised millions who left the Dems in the 80s/90s, voted Perot in the 90s, and voted for Trump. More anger as a result of blanket dismissals of her opponents as racist, sexist, xenophobic. More unfettered immigration to use "democracy" as a tool for one party rule. A HRC win also emboldens the establishment politicians, who once again would fail to address the enormous groundswell against them. The press has absolutely zero credibility now and isn't trusted by anybody. Abandoning any pretense of impartiality means more people will draw their news from ridiculous sources and are more poorly informed as a result. The abundance of information has made us all dumber.
I chalked it up as nonsense as recently as 4 years ago, but no longer do. States will revolt if there is another 4 years of the same shit. You will see more lawsuits challenging government authority, more legal slapdowns from the courts, and eventually states are gonna say fuck it and fuck you, we're done and it's the 21st century so you aren't going to send in troops to stop us. Buh bye. Dismiss such notions at your peril. We may not relate to this groundswell in our nice little suburban homes, but it's there. Regardless of who wins, the states need to convene a constitutional convention and agree on some new things outside of, apart from, and unencumbered by the weenies in Washington or else it's going to unravel. It is their responsibility to do so before opting out. They were given this option for precisely this reason.
Does a Trump win stop all that? It puts his side to bed for a nap, but it also just reverses that groundswell and causes more people in blue states to say fuck it, just not to the extent that you're seeing now. In the end, there is too much anger everywhere, too much vitriol. In spite of HRC and Obama implying it, hate isn't the preferred parlance of the right. It is abundant on the left as well. Politicians know it's a great motivator to get people to the polls. In the end, it will be the undoing for all of them when they no longer have a country to rule.
