Obama should just declare martial law at this point

[pbrower2a]

Wrong way to do it. That would be dictatorial.

[pbrower2a]

One of three things will pass: Donald Trump will be wildly successful, doing practically everything right because every liberal 'reform' since the 1920s is a catastrophic blunder. It's back to sharecropping, early-industrial norms of social organization in business, great profits, workers enthralled by gross uncertainty, Big Business in complete control of the political process, wives subjected to men, homosexuality and contraception outlawed, a restoration of WASP dominion over all aspects of life, minorities knowing their (subordinate) places, the environment turned into a nationwide sewer, accelerated use of natural resources. Oh yes -- the designated-hitter rule is abolished and leather helmets again become the norm in football.

Second, it will all fail, but the economic elites will establish a tight, authoritarian  order in which anyone who even grumbles about the brutal working conditions faces a personal reform in which the workweek is 100 hours instead of 60 and death from exhaustion and starvation are commonplace as in Nazi 'labor' camps like Dachau.  Whether it is a disaster for most people will not matter because they will be in fear of either quick death by execution or slow death by starvation.

Third, it will fail with a mass shift of political sentiment against the Hard Right which will culminate in political change (free elections if such is permitted, maybe a military coup  or a violent revolution if there is no democratic means of changing the political norms). Americans get huge institutional changes, perhaps even reforming core realities of political life. The checks and balances against corporate power come into existence. Maybe we get proportional representation instead of gerrymandered districts.

...We are going to have a President who says that nothing is true if it is inconvenient to believe. We will have a Congress whose majorities both believe that no human suffering is in excess so long as the tiny elite of about 2% get everything that they possibly can. 

...Cruelty, corruption, despotism, and inequity deserve no loyalty.   

   

[pbrower2a]

We have more cause to fear Donald Trump declaring martial law.

[pbrower2a]

So with what you're saying now, why is this stupid meme still in your signature?

You are either extremely stupid or just a really skilled troll.

That's actually a cool map. It's too bad it has to have that nonsensical political message attached to it.

As I recall in 2008, except for 63 counties, independent cities, and DC, President Obama would have lost to John McCain. Those were the 63 most densely-populated counties and independent cities in America, and Obama won them as a group in landslides. Some were obvious, like the Boroughs of New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and counties including Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Miami,  Seattle, and Denver  -- but also some small cities in Virginia which somehow are independent of county government (like Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, and Harrisonburg)  Ne just baly lost the popular vote elsewhere.

Why should a rural vote count more than an urban vote?