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In It to Win It

(8,139 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:24 PM Nov 2020

I hope that enough people see the circus that we saw in 2016

The 2008 election was the first election that I had an actual opinion on. I wasn't old enough to vote at the time but I was old enough to understand what was going on. I rooted for Barack Obama to win but I didn't if he didn't, I didn't think John McCain would be so bad that he would fundamentally change the direction of the country or be a threat to the standing of the US in the world. In 2012, I didn't like Mitt Romney but I didn't think that of him either.

In 2016 however, this was different. This was fuckery like we had never seen before. Being a erratic and impulsive doesn't work for government. We knew this guy was full of shit. We knew this circus of a campaign that we had been looking at for a year and a half would be the same circus we would get in the White House. Yet, a combination of enough people voting 3rd party, enough people not turning out, and enough people voting for him gained him the presidency.

It took me a week to fully digest that Donald Trump had won. I remember waking up at 1am and they were still counting, and waking up again at around 3am to the CNN chyron that said "Clinton concedes to Trump." We knew it was gonna be a long four years. My only hope at the time was that the people that voted for him will see him govern and realize that he's terrible, and enough people will see Donald Trump for the nut job bullshitter that he is and stop supporting him. Come tomorrow, we'll see and I hope that delivers a win for Joe Biden.

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