trying to be hopeful

[kindkit]

As far as I know, tonight's results won't yet include mail-in ballots. There were a lot of those this year, in states that allowed them. And mail-in voters tend to vote heavily Democratic. So if they're counted, it could make a difference.

I say if because Trump will, of course, try to prevent them from being counted.



None of this affects the despair I feel that half my fellow citizens have looked back at Trump's presidency and said, "Yeah, I'll have more of that."

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[silveradept]

It's always a stark reminder of how many people seem very content to screw everyone over if they believe they're only screwing someone other than themselves.

[kindkit]

Trump actually winning the popular vote, as seems to be happening, hurts to contemplate. I don't understand how anyone can want the world he's promising, even out of self-interest.

[silveradept]

I can, but it requires bone-deep understanding of the lie fed to you that you deserve to be the person on top and everyone who isn't you should fall at your feet and worship you, and that government and society exists to make sure that if they don't fall to the ground of their own free will, there's someone there to kick their legs out from under them and hold their heads to the ground until they learn to do it themselves.