Well, kind of like with the Cubs last week, I was lying there in bed considering the election as a Schrodinger experiment. That is, so long as I didn’t pick up my iPad and start reading, a Trump or Hillary victory was just out there in the fog of probability.
But around 2AM, lying there unable to sleep, I went ahead and opened the box.
I’ve been saying for months I didn’t believe the polls, that I was sure there was a silent majority out there who were sick and tired of Obama and socialism, and whom the pollsters were either consciously ignoring or just simply missed in their blind liberal/progressive Clinton advocacy.
At 2AM it became pretty obvious that I was right. And Fox News later confirmed my suspicion.
The upshot of this election has to be that we as citizens take a hard look at how news is reported and polls are weighted. The media and the pollsters did not cover themselves with glory, this cycle, quite the opposite, and they need to be punished in some way for their overreach. It’s time for some real honesty to break out.
In the meantime, wow, the vitriol from the other side.
This came up from a person who’s been a friend of mine for 30 years. She’s GenX, 13 years my junior. A true sweetheart, I love her dearly. And this is how she treats people she knows for the thoughtcrime of marking a ballot for Trump.
My response:
I then hid the post and turned off notifications. If she unfriends me, Fluff-Busting Purity will let me know. So far she hasn’t. (Ah. She just did. Took the childish way out, too bad.)
The word “gloating” is being thrown around a lot at people on the right who are commenting about the Trump victory. I don’t see the gloating, personally. I see a lot of people who are happy it didn’t go the other way, but who are still completely unsure about and distrustful of Trump (myself included). But I also see a lot of people who are absolutely freaking out that Hillary lost, like my friend above, personal friends of literally decades of acquaintance threatening to drop (and not just on Facebook) all of their Trump-voting friends for no more than a mark on a ballot.
And I find that sad. The election is over. It’s time for people to find their objectivity and hold on tight to it.