It’s Not Over Until It’s Over
We’ve heard this a lot in the weeks leading up to today, Election Day…”at least it will be over on November 3rd”.
Hate to mention it, but that’s far from the truth.
Even if all the races are declared final today, even if we do not have a protracted vote count…today’s not the end of anything but political ads.
No matter which candidate wins for president, I fear we are going to have an extended period of civil unrest and political turmoil. If Donald Trump wins, the organized far left masses will resume rioting, looting and burning in our major cities, and those in charge will continue to be hands off in controlling it, preferring to blame the unrest on who is president as opposed to protecting their cities and citizens. If Joe Biden wins, frankly there will still be that looting and burning…at first in celebration, then to protest when he doesn’t go far enough to suit them.
You won’t see folks wearing red MAGA hats torching cities if Biden wins, but they might unplug from the political process…the group that was only compelled to vote because of Trump and who will again withdraw from voting and condemn the process for another generation or more.
A Democrat loss will lead a smart party to stop blaming others for the second straight presidential defeat and start examining if the push to the left, and now far left, is actually resonating with voters. A Republican loss will lead to many traditional GOP folks calling the Trump years an aberration as they rush to reclaim the party they lost when voters voted for Trump, while those who came aboard during the past four years will push to advance those non-traditional principles.
So regardless of the outcome, we are in for a time of great political change. That’s not abnormal, it happens in pretty regular cycles…it’s sort of American. The question is how much of the political change leads to destruction and violence…because that’s not American, and there’s been far too much of it in this horrible year of 2020 already.
