PrevertOne
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The End.
When I think of the past year and the results of tonight's bleak election, the one thing that stood out for me was this: everyone who has lived and died in this country always took it for granted that the Republic would be around forever. That America would always be, even if it came close to not being, like the Civil War or World War II. America always took its punches and then hit back, hard. America endured, America survived. They could bomb our naval bases, or knock down our skyscrapers but we dust ourselves off, roll up our sleeves, and then we get to work, and in the end, we're the ones standing.
The problem, I think, people don't understand about terrorists killing people is that it's only thing terrorists can do. They can blow up marketplaces, assassinate leaders, and knock down buildings but they can't kill countries. Only a country's citizens can do that. Only Americans can kill America.
Last night Americans killed America. Yeah, it's bleak, dark, despairing but, sorry, that's basically what happened. Most of those who voted wrongly, or didn't vote at all, probably don't think they did. They might not think so for quite some time, if at all. The death of a country doesn't always come suddenly, like a surprise. It can sneak up like a thief in the night, or rot from within, but it comes, inevitably.
The people made a choice, and it's the wrong one. They forgot democracy, great as it is, has a flaw; it's the only system that can vote itself out of existence and, once it's gone, it's damned difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. It might feel good to destroy a system, out of anger, frustration, or some undefined need for change; but in the end, it's still rubble, with nothing to replace it, or something much darker than anything before.
A demagogue and autocrat is going to be the President of the United States. A more illiberal, unfit person can not be found at anytime in our history; and he was put there for reasons History will find trivial: emails.
So that's it folks. Two hundred and forty years was a good run but all things come to an end. We're done. The terrorists won. All they had to do was knock down two of our skyscrapers and then stand back and let us do the rest. Somebody else is going to have to assume the mantle of world leadership. We have nothing for you here. After January 2017 the United States is going to be something. A state probably, but not a republic. The Republic is over.
The End.
When I think of the past year and the results of tonight's bleak election, the one thing that stood out for me was this: everyone who has lived and died in this country always took it for granted that the Republic would be around forever. That America would always be, even if it came close to not being, like the Civil War or World War II. America always took its punches and then hit back, hard. America endured, America survived. They could bomb our naval bases, or knock down our skyscrapers but we dust ourselves off, roll up our sleeves, and then we get to work, and in the end, we're the ones standing.
The problem, I think, people don't understand about terrorists killing people is that it's only thing terrorists can do. They can blow up marketplaces, assassinate leaders, and knock down buildings but they can't kill countries. Only a country's citizens can do that. Only Americans can kill America.
Last night Americans killed America. Yeah, it's bleak, dark, despairing but, sorry, that's basically what happened. Most of those who voted wrongly, or didn't vote at all, probably don't think they did. They might not think so for quite some time, if at all. The death of a country doesn't always come suddenly, like a surprise. It can sneak up like a thief in the night, or rot from within, but it comes, inevitably.
The people made a choice, and it's the wrong one. They forgot democracy, great as it is, has a flaw; it's the only system that can vote itself out of existence and, once it's gone, it's damned difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. It might feel good to destroy a system, out of anger, frustration, or some undefined need for change; but in the end, it's still rubble, with nothing to replace it, or something much darker than anything before.
A demagogue and autocrat is going to be the President of the United States. A more illiberal, unfit person can not be found at anytime in our history; and he was put there for reasons History will find trivial: emails.
So that's it folks. Two hundred and forty years was a good run but all things come to an end. We're done. The terrorists won. All they had to do was knock down two of our skyscrapers and then stand back and let us do the rest. Somebody else is going to have to assume the mantle of world leadership. We have nothing for you here. After January 2017 the United States is going to be something. A state probably, but not a republic. The Republic is over.
The End.
