I've been watching the protests that have followed the election; it's amazing to see just how many people don't live in the real world. Think about this:
Students at some universities have had professors cancel exams because the students are upset by Trump's win. Now imagine what would happen if you were to have called your employer on Wednesday and said that you were staying home for a few days because you were just too upset to come to work. To quote a line from Trump: "You're fired!" Right? These students just don't live in the real world.
People (many of whom are the same students) marched in a batch of cities to protest the election results. Nothing will change. Trump is President Elect. He will still be President Elect after 100 more protests. This is a battle that these fools can only lose. It's a rather immature response to democracy.
Some in the media are continuing with their coverage as if the election never happened. Last night, I flipped the channel to see what Rachel Maddow was saying. She was in the middle of a monologue about how it would be a bad idea to give Trump control of the military. I know she knows that Trump has already won. Nevertheless, she was playing to her audience with arguments that were fine (if a little far out) during the campaign but which are meaningless now. America has already chosen. It's time for the Democrats to come back to the real world.
Yesterday, Howard Dean of all people announced that he is going to seek to be the chair of the Democrat National Committee. The only choice that would be worse for that position would be Anthony Weiner. Dean is a nasty man who will say anything that he thinks will advance his cause (no matter what the actual facts.) The key, however, is not his honesty (or lack of it) or his adversarial personality. No, the key is that Dean is a symbol of the past. Will the Democrats actually pick a new chair who is a relic of a bygone era? Do they think that they can win back voters by putting forth an avatar of the very sort of corruption that was rejected three days ago? They need to re-enter the real world.
Students at some universities have had professors cancel exams because the students are upset by Trump's win. Now imagine what would happen if you were to have called your employer on Wednesday and said that you were staying home for a few days because you were just too upset to come to work. To quote a line from Trump: "You're fired!" Right? These students just don't live in the real world.
People (many of whom are the same students) marched in a batch of cities to protest the election results. Nothing will change. Trump is President Elect. He will still be President Elect after 100 more protests. This is a battle that these fools can only lose. It's a rather immature response to democracy.
Some in the media are continuing with their coverage as if the election never happened. Last night, I flipped the channel to see what Rachel Maddow was saying. She was in the middle of a monologue about how it would be a bad idea to give Trump control of the military. I know she knows that Trump has already won. Nevertheless, she was playing to her audience with arguments that were fine (if a little far out) during the campaign but which are meaningless now. America has already chosen. It's time for the Democrats to come back to the real world.
Yesterday, Howard Dean of all people announced that he is going to seek to be the chair of the Democrat National Committee. The only choice that would be worse for that position would be Anthony Weiner. Dean is a nasty man who will say anything that he thinks will advance his cause (no matter what the actual facts.) The key, however, is not his honesty (or lack of it) or his adversarial personality. No, the key is that Dean is a symbol of the past. Will the Democrats actually pick a new chair who is a relic of a bygone era? Do they think that they can win back voters by putting forth an avatar of the very sort of corruption that was rejected three days ago? They need to re-enter the real world.
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