I bet you thought that I would say what is tiresome is the endless recitation of how this or that guy is a "white hat" and the predictions that Hillary is in jail by (pick your date) and the constantly evolving theories of how point a shows the super plan is working out.......
That stuff can get boring.
But what is REALLY boring is the constant "Weeping Susan" moans and a conspiracy theory of corruption and indolence and hopelessness and despair which makes the most ridiculous conspiracies in the bowels of "Q-dom" look tame by comparison. That is just as boring as sitting watching a cesspool belch out gas bubbles, and just about as enjoyable. Boring despair of the Eyoore type finds reason for loss of hope in the best of news, and NEVER EVER sees encouragement in the real elements of societal change, as it is focused like a laser on the big institutional corporate and political structures with their constant drivel. If you are a weeping Susan, then all is lost if the CNN anchors are not reading Atlas Shrugged aloud and praising Donald Trump....., or at least Mike Pence. You just don't "get it" that Trump did not start this fire. Trump is a RESULT of the fire, and if he were dead tomorrow, someone or someones would take his reigns. Rush Limbaugh was the same way. There is a restless urge for freedom, and an increasing willingness to resist and talk back to tyranny. There is a huge MARKET for this in America, and these guys just found it. Trump is just the effervescence of that boil.
Nowhere are weeping Susans more on display than their attitude towards this election. There is a constant moaning and despondent acceptance that all is lost. After all, they say, does not a casual reading of history show us that corruption, tyranny and grinding despotism are the normal progression of events? Uhhhh, no. No it doesn't. Muttering about how the march of tyranny is going to come and grab your guns, and dreams of forlornly battling on a hilltop (shouting "WOLVERINES," no doubt!) is not "realism." It is foolish cynicism and ridiculous, frankly. The history of humanity is filled with wicked men who come to power, but it is equally filled with people who resist that power and see wicked men fade and crumble. I believe we are in a time like this, and the hysterical and frantic attempts to grab power are not so much a portent of doom for us as they are a recognition that the left is losing the REAL battle. They are convinced the REAL battle is who has the levers of institutional power. I am equally convinced that the REAL battle is for the hearts and souls of men and women. On that front, we are winning, and we always win when the choices are clear and our eyes are open.
The FACT is that there has been a huge surge of support for liberty in the past few years. I saw it in Ron Paul and the tea party movement and the consequent tidal wave of Trump. If anything, that wave surged in November. The institutions of power are frankly terrified of it and have resorted to outright, blatant, open and transparent fraud in a desperate attempt to clutch on to it.
While this is dangerous, I find it exhilarating. It means that the robes are coming off, the left is showing its fangs, and people are more informed about the nature of the choices. People in this forum like the old car racing dude, stuck in a fantasy world of "good" being our institutions and "bad" being threats to them.... those people are fading away like mold and mildew before bleach. This is very very good.
As for the election itself, I do believe Trump will take a second term. The reason is that NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, matters before December 14 (the date when the electoral college votes), except the courts. That is where everything goes down. Trump (and some vocal cheerleaders) SAY they have incontrovertible evidence that the election was stolen. That is what courts are all about. EVIDENCE is the only thing that matters. If you have demonstrable computer code showing vote rigging, affadavits declaring that ballot tampering was happening and when and where these events occurred, sworn testimony of persons excluded from their rightful tasks of overseeing correlating with huge swings in voting, multiple claims of mysterious ballot delivery in large quantities, combined with statistically impossible odds of voting patterns..... those are EVIDENCE, and the courts can rule on them, throwing out votes as invalid. Republican state legislatures (Michigan and Wisconsin, particularly) can have a basis for refusing to validate the electoral votes. One of these two are not only possible, but PROBABLE. Again, it depends solely on the evidence. If it is solid, Trump will win a second term. If not, then all is still not lost. The left will go hard core, attempting to seize power in a manner which will maybe even result in a civil war (it could happen), with "red country" outside cities becoming essentially "no go" zones for bureaucrats.... but I think this unlikely. Hard core leftozealots are full of bravado but have no stomach for true imposition of power on people who say "no" and mean it. If they do succeed in stealing this election, they are likely lighting a match that will spark a result they never envisioned.
Either way, it is cause for real hope here, and I say that EVEN as I consider my own passport status.
YMMV
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