Donald Trump is President-Elect and the world is going nuts trying to figure out who to blame it on. The Russians? The programmers of the voting machines? Hillary Clinton? The Republicans? The Democrats? Satan, even?
Here's the deal, folks. We The People are to blame. We The People bought into the thinking that those two were our only options. We The People chose between the lesser of two evils. We The People believed that a mother and grandmother wanted to kill babies because she's Pro-Choice. We The People believed a man was a sexist and a racist because of things taken out of context.
I "wasted" my vote on a candidate I thought was better qualified than those two. I'll probably do it again. The men who designed our system wanted me to do it. They wanted all of us to do it - not to vote for the lesser of two evils, not to vote against anyone, but to hire the best person for the job.
Also, we are not "screwed" because of who got elected. The President of the United States does not hold that kind of power. He has to work with the Legislative Branch - and no matter what their party lines might be, those folks are not going to back anything that's going to cost them their jobs. Because it will. This election was a mess, to put it mildly, but it opened a lot of eyes.
We The People are awake now. We The People will be watching those we've elected, as we should have been all along. We The People - most of us, anyway - are not happy about how this turned out, for various reasons. Strange as it may seem, this election may be a blessing in disguise.
Sometimes you have to shoot yourself in the foot before realizing you need to learn more about guns.
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