The day after...

"I have been thinking about the day after election. In all likelihood, it will the day this country elects a bonafide crook. Our first woman President who is not fit to be a dogcatcher."

In 1983 there was a very disturbing movie made for TV called The Day After. It was especially poignant as it was made in the middle of the Cold War. It was about a lead up in hostilities between the Soviet Union and NATO, culminating with a nuclear exchange. But the thrust of the movie was what life would be like in America once that one day nuclear war was over. It was horrible.

Why do I bring this up? Simple - I have been thinking about the day after election. In all likelihood, election day will the day this country elects a bonafide crook. Our first woman President who is not fit to be dogcatcher. The rhetoric is already heating up. It was reported in one article that many Trump backers are promising revolution if Clinton wins. Senator Cruz has joined John McCain is saying Senate Republicans will use every trick or method possible to block Clinton SCOTUS nominees. Rumor also has it that Donald Trump is lawyered up, ready to protest any, no matter how minute, irregularities in the voting process. 

After 9/11, Glenn Beck started a group called the 9/12 Project. Beck thought how our country reacted to the attack the day after was just as important as the attack itself. For a few fleeting days, this country was one. Democrat or Republican, black or white, rural or urban, Christian or Jew - it simply did not matter. We were all Americans. However, that did not last long at all. The fractures in our melting pot grew deeper and deeper. Then, after eight years of Obama, this country appears to be on the brink of some kind of a civil war.

My feeling is this. Just as this entire election process has been ugly and mostly forgettable, the day (or days) following this election could be worse. Both Clinton and Trump are beyond unpopular with the other side - they are hated with a passion. There will be no coming together. This country is polarized to its very roots.

Under Clinton, our government will continue to grow and become more intrusive. It will continue to morph into what our Founders warned us about. The pet will have become the master, and we will all end up on the wrong end of the leash. But many Clinton supporters do not see it that way. The "coddle me from birth to death" crowd love more government. If it takes their liberty away, who cares? The important thing is they chant and believe that "taking is better than making". If reminds me of the crowds chanting "ending is better than mending" from Brave New World. In that book, the government also controlled the people.

Are you ready for the results the day after? I am not. I don't know how I ever could be. I grieve for this country for what it has become, and will become on November 9th. Will there be something like a 9/12 Project which could rescue us? I really doubt it.