election day
Nov. 3rd, 2020 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishI'm not worried about the Presidential election, except in the "if three of you vote for pizza and two of you vote to kill and eat Frank the pizza guy, even if you get pizza you have a problem" sense. Under any rational electoral system the only question would be "by how much is Trump going to get his ass handed to him." In the world as it is, Pennsylvania will be a pivotal shitshow. Republicans will insist that because Trump is ahead on election night (because those same Republicans prohibited Pennsylvania from early-counting the early-voting ballots) he's won and the count should be stopped. Either he "wins" that, or he doesn't.
(Side note: here, as in the case of Amy Coney Barrett vs Merrick Garland, Republicans have no honour and no principles save power. Many of these same Republicans, notably Brett Kavanaugh, argued twenty years ago that not counting every vote would be a perversion of the democratic process. Recommended search terms include "Bush v Gore" and "Brooks Brothers riot".)
So the prospect of a Trump win fills me with despair. I don't think it's likely, which helps; I also, mm, don't have any hope around it. Despairbot, the part of me that keeps on going when everything looks like it's gone to shit, will get me through if necessary.
It's the Senate that scares me. (I am unconcerned about the Democrats losing the House, and maybe I shouldn't be?) A Biden presidency without a Senate majority or at least a tie is little better than a Trump presidency. Worse, for my mental state, because I'll get to spend the next four years watching a replay of 2010-16 several turns further down the spiral.
Even if the Democrats take the Senate, there's still the judiciary to deal with. But that's a January problem.
(Side note: here, as in the case of Amy Coney Barrett vs Merrick Garland, Republicans have no honour and no principles save power. Many of these same Republicans, notably Brett Kavanaugh, argued twenty years ago that not counting every vote would be a perversion of the democratic process. Recommended search terms include "Bush v Gore" and "Brooks Brothers riot".)
So the prospect of a Trump win fills me with despair. I don't think it's likely, which helps; I also, mm, don't have any hope around it. Despairbot, the part of me that keeps on going when everything looks like it's gone to shit, will get me through if necessary.
It's the Senate that scares me. (I am unconcerned about the Democrats losing the House, and maybe I shouldn't be?) A Biden presidency without a Senate majority or at least a tie is little better than a Trump presidency. Worse, for my mental state, because I'll get to spend the next four years watching a replay of 2010-16 several turns further down the spiral.
Even if the Democrats take the Senate, there's still the judiciary to deal with. But that's a January problem.
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Date: 2020-11-04 09:29 pm (UTC)Sounds like Presidential counting is all over bar running up the score? Meanwhile it looks like I'm gonna be throwing money to a pair of Senate races in Georgia in early December. I cannot emphasise enough that this is the opposite of what I requested.