General Discussion

when he dies quietly in his sleep. No, life is not fair, it's just life. But even if these fantasies were to come true, Trump has managed to pull off perhaps the greatest con in the history of the world by getting elected president of the most powerful and richest country in the world has ever known. The sad thing is that it never needed to happen and even more sad is that he accomplished this with the unwitting help of too many of us on the Left who were so confident that Hillary would win that we felt we had permission to vote for third party candidates and pissed away the chance to make the Trump nightmare years nothing more than a bad alternative history novel, like what if the South had won the civil war.

I don't think that anyone was more surprised than Trump himself when he appeared in the middle of the night to claim victory with his family around him and those around him with the "how could this ever have happened?" look on their faces. If only those of us on the Left had learned the lesson that the outcome of a presidential election is binary with the winner either being the Democrat or the Republican. As a voting Democrat of over 50 years I have always voted for the candidate of the Democratic Party or the Liberal in a non-partisan race. Win or lose, it's a simple concept and philosophy.

Now, let the fantasies continue.