Will the election outcome really matter? [To Zot or not to Zot?]

The Revolutionary Act ^ | 11/15/2016 | David G. Johnson

[The Revolutionary Act]

Public reaction to last week’s election results has been startling, from rioting on the left to Washington power-brokers on the right cozying up to the incoming President.

But will the outcome of this election really matter in the long term?

I’m certainly aware of the long-lasting import of SCOTUS appointments and similar decisions made by the chief executive. But it remains to be seen whether we have, in fact, dodged a bullet or signed our own death warrant as a nation.

What concerns me more than ever is this simple, undeniable fact:

In our Republic, power still rests firmly in the grasp of those paying for it.

One factor that seemed to drive those who voted for Donald Trump was that he ran as an outsider to the political establishment. Yet it appears the new President-elect has immediately begun to align himself with Washington power brokers to run his transition team and fill some 4,000 jobs in his new administration. Some experience in Washington’s swampy ways makes sense, but this bears watching. Insiders will not bring the change that Trump supporters voted for.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You’ve been here less than a month and you’re writing articles criticizing the Trump transition and excerpt your own blog? Chutzpah.

[MNJohnnie]

And this is why you Ultras are politically impotent. Your only purpose in life is to sit around bitching while better men do things

[humblegunner]

What caused you to excerpt your own blog?

In fact, what caused you to write the stupid thing in the first place?

[humblegunner]

What caused you to post your blog as “News”?

There is something seriously wrong with you, bud.

[elcid1970]

You darn skippy it’s gonna matter!

[Defiant]

It is worrisome to me that in an election against the most vile human ever to seek the Presidency, with a broad-based telegenic candidate who had the same policies that propelled Reagan to two landlsides, Trump barely won, and it took PA and MI to put him over the top. That will be tough to replicate in 4 years, and with changing demographics and snowflakes weighing on future elections, it may get more difficult to win.

I pray that it is not the last gasp of those who remember America as it should be and was, but instead a new dawning of America that will bring along those who have been maleducated prior to now. It will take more than simply success by the Trump administration. It will take removal of the border invaders, change in immigration laws, outreach to inner cities with programs that educate their children and that end the welfare cycle, and the creation of alternative sources of news that don't get drowned out by a media monopoly.

[Robert DeLong]

Take your NeverTrump Act somewhere else.

[HarleyD]

It will be interesting. I have always contended that what was needed in Washington wasn’t more lawyers and politicians but business men. We’ll see.

[catnipman]

“But will the outcome of this election really matter in the long term?”

Of course not: in the long term, we’re all dead.

[AndyTheBear]

Will the election outcome really matter?

YES!

Anymore stupid questions?

[Scythian_Reborn]

That reminds me of a debate Ravi Zacharias attended to debate an atheist at a university. A young man stood up and challenged everything Ravi was saying about God, the young man said “How do I know I even exist?” and Ravi calmly answered “To whom shall I say is asking?”

[right way right]

Newbie blog pimp. I smell ozone.