The Electoral College voted December 19, 2016, finalizing Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the US. The following day, in the supposedly greatest democracy on earth, the hypocrisy of many caught up with them in the form of a trending hashtag, #NeverMyPresident.
In a democracy, the will of the people supersedes everything else. Therefore the hashtag was as
stupid as the call for the abolition of the #ElectoralCollege and as divisive
as the #CrookedHillary hashtag (that unfairly demonized one flawed candidate
over an equally flawed opponent), given that elections are
won by a majority of votes no matter how people feel about a particular candidate.
In the US, it’s the electoral college vote that counts, so even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million ballots, it did not change anything. Fact is, for the Democrats, the numbers just didn’t add up this time, but that’s no reason to devalue the electoral college.
By calling for its abolition and continuing an unhealthy obsession with Trump (which, by the way, is
the reason he won in the first place), Clinton fans and the Democratic Party are unwittingly impeding the unraveling of Donald Trump. The campaign is over, now it’s time to assess him on his policy, not his campaign antics.
Therefore criticizing him for every triviality will erode the power of any serious critique on things that actually matter. And since his supporters, like him, take all criticism personally, they instinctively respond to every attack by defending
him, which leaves them no time to actually evaluate him. It is important for them to evaluate him because they voted him for a
purpose.
It goes without saying that dwelling on
trivialities simply repeats the mistakes made during the campaign, which is, steering attention away
from issues. It is now clear, of course, that disparaging Trump just “for being Trump,” is tantamount to celebrating Trump.
It might be time for the
country to move on. It might also be time for Democrats to look beyond the
email hacking as a reason for their loss though a bipartisan investigation is crucial for the sake of the country.
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| Clinton & Obama |
The truth of the matter is that if the contents of those emails
were not damaging to Mrs. Clinton, the hacking would not have made any
difference at all, after all, as many have said, the Russians didn’t write the
emails.
One interesting point many ignore is that if a majority of American voters wanted
Hillary Clinton to be president, the hacked emails, even with their damaging
contents, would not have made any difference. And there is no greater proof of that
than Donald Trump himself.
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| Putin |
He refused to release his tax records, they still voted for
him. He mocked a disabled person on national television, they still voted for
him. He called Mexicans rapists, they still voted for him. He made utterances in public that no other presidential candidate would dare make in private, they still voted
for him. In short, Donald Trump broke every rule of the game but because the
majority wanted him, they voted for him anyway.
Maybe it’s time
for America to finally "silence the guns" and seek instead to understand the meaning
behind that choice.
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