The unthinkable has happened. A reality TV star, racist, misogynist, bigot has been elected President of the United States. Has this country gone mad? Is this really happening or just a bad dream?
The polls before the election showed a fairly convincing victory for Hillary Clinton. What the hell went wrong?
Trump ended up winning the electoral college by winning very narrow margins in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. As of now, it appears Hillary Clinton is going to win the popular vote by 1.8 million votes. There is something very wrong here. I live in a country where the candidate who got the most votes is going to lose? That doesn't even make sense. Trump was right, the system was rigged but rigged against Hillary Clinton. The Electoral College is an archaic remnant of the past and should be abolished immediately. This is the second time in the last 16 years the winner of the popular vote will be denied the Presidency, when Al Gore got more votes than Bush in the stolen election of 2000.
Lets face it, Hillary Clinton was not at all an inspiring candidate. She got roughly 5 million less votes than Obama did in 2012. If Democrats don't get people to the polls they lose. The Democratic establishment forced her upon the electorate in the primaries and rigged it against Bernie Sanders.
Bernie had a great message and inspired voters. He had massive rallies and enthusiasm with virtually no press coverage. I saw a recent poll that showed he would have easily defeated Trump. He appealed to the working class white voters, that Hillary could not. There was also the disgusting racism and bigotry of Trump. There is a segment of this society that message appeals to, he capitalized on that. She was the darling of Wall Street. There is no way that one could believe she would all of the sudden be for the common folks after talking millions from wall street. All of her prior baggage did not help either. She was a flawed, uninspiring messenger in a year where people wanted change. Still she got 1.8 million votes more than Trump.
It is wonderful to see all of the protests springing up around the country. Maybe people will become more engaged after this travesty. The foundations on which this country were founded are slipping away little by little. The wealthy and elite are gradually turning this into a oligarchy run by them and the corporations. Could this election be the final straw that broke the camels back? This is going to play out over the next several years. Will a popular resistance movement to Trump's racism. misogyny and bigotry really sprout up? That question be answered over the next months and years.
As of now, we are sitting on a Time Bomb.
