Maybe I've just gotten cynical after this whole year of disasters, but I really don't see them switching their votes before December. It feels a lot like when Bernie started losing the nomination and everybody kept going "Oh, he can still get it. It's fine. He just needs to convince the delegates..." :S
I think we might be ok, we just need to work hard to keep him in check for the next few years. I know it's rough for a lot of folks out there right now though *hugs*

I think we might be ok, we just need to work hard to keep him in check for the next few years. I know it's rough for a lot of folks out there right now though *hugs*

You, we need to write our congressmen frequently to make sure they oppose the damaging things Trump tries to do. And since the GOP have the majority in the House and Senate, AND control the White House, that means that ANYTHING bad between now and the midterms in 2018 is ALL THEIR FAULT!

Keep the GOP feet to the fire, and remember, GOTV: Get Out The Vote. Not just in the midterms, but in the local elections too, if local is done on an odd numbered year. Aside from the odd orange fluke, the Presidential candidates come from a pool of politicians who have 'done well' in state positions or Congress, and that pool comes from a pool that has 'done well' in City positions. So vet out and vote for good Mayors, Comptrolers, Treasurers, Water Reclamation Chiefs, Dog Catchers, etc. because it's OUR job to find the right people for those jobs, and then to start training them to be a 'good' Civil Servant who listens to the people, instead of these overblown, self-important idiots.

^This.

And if you want to go one step further, talk a look at Bernie's OurRevolution movement, he's recommending all that, and something extra: RUNNING for local office, getting into the system where you can do some actual good for your community. I'm not going to push that hard (It's arduous even getting people to sign up with their local JayCees chapter to help the neighborhood.) but the option's there for those who have gotten a fire lit under them.

(Thought I was going to end with a 'Feel the Bern' line? Not even Sanders is using that one anymore.)

it's all been done, albeit not all by one person before.

That's why he's so scary.

We know drinking bleach is bad, it's been done before.
We know drinking ammonia is bad, it's been done before.
But we've never seen anyone drink a bleach-ammonia cocktail before. (Mainly because mixing bleach and ammonia will kill anyone in the room.)

Exactly. Regardless of who he really is in private, his public persona is a combination of every rotten quality in a person that fans of reality TV love. He's what happens when privilege and greed, capriciousness and disregard for others, and baser instincts all somehow coalesce into a crude human form.

However bad he is, the fact he got so much support is also an indictment of the current political landscape in general. Imagine the regular folks who are stuck in places where the only good jobs were protected by the unions before Reagan gutted the unions' ability to negotiate. Imagine the factory workers who lost their jobs when their companies went overseas and they didn't have the job skills to try another career. The normal politicians on both sides made overtures about helping the working classses, but large-scale relief never came. A lot of them don't like the scandals he's constantly surrounded with, so many wouldn't openly admit their support - that's why advance polling showed Hillary ahead. But someone with no prospects who is sure that another politician would just ignore them would be willing to overlook pretty much any flaw if it meant even a chance that their lives would get better.

So yeah, I hate the guy - his rage issues, his treatment of minorities and disabled people, his choice of running mate, his attempts to court votes from hate groups, his manipulation of the poor and uneducated - all of it. But I understand why people who aren't bigots voted for him. I don't blame them for how they feel. I'm still standing up and fighting, I'll still oppose everything he does that feels like he wants to roll back social progress. But I'm not angry anymore - I'm just filled with determination.

Keep that determination alive. It's going to be a long, hard path, like doing a coast-to-coast marathon at no slower than a fast jog, including over the mountain ranges, but we've got to keep at it.

Remember:

* Feet to the fire.
* All the GOP's fault.
* Get Out The Vote!