After a fair amount of pondering....I've come to three observations about the future of politics in the US....no matter who wins this election:
1. Roughly fifty to sixty percent of the nation will be coming to the conclusion over the next twelve months that the election system is crapped out and unable to function (as advertised).
Blame will set upon various county officials, state political folks, news people, judges, and the national party system (both parties).
'Banana Republic' will be uttered a great deal.
2. Right-leaners still voting with the Republicans? I think a fair number of people will gaze at Fox News, and twenty-odd Republicans in the House and Senate....to say they more or less wanted Trump 'moved-on'.
A third-party discussion will start up. It might take three to four years, but I expect a full-up conservative party to exist by 2024, and mount some candidate. Maybe he'll only get 12-percent of the national vote. Maybe he only gets fifteen Electoral College votes. But it'll the beginning of the end for the GOP.
The same occurring for the Democratic or left-leaners? Maybe. The Green Party already exists. But there's probably room for non-urban Democratic Party....especially in the south.
3. Finally, you can just sense an enormous amount of propaganda being dished-out on a daily basis. You get propaganda via your local TV network, some local sports talk-show host, your local minister, your neighbor, your local school PTA 'bosses', and forty-odd individuals.
Maybe it was marginally done back in the 1980s, but at the current pace of things....people are likely to start backing away from 'trust' and start to question virtually everything they see. That's not exactly a good thing.
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