Reply #363: The ones who will leave won't be us.

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It will be the idolaters. Those of us who are Democrats, who know what it is to support human beings with flaws and stands we despise, we'll still be here.

Those who sold themselves a ridiculous salvation theology based on revivalist speechifying will leave, bitter and disillusioned and yelling "a pox on both your houses!"

We picked a candidate. We had every opportunity to express our choice and this is what we got. Our very survival depends on him. First, on his being elected. Second, on his being able to meet our needs in what looks to be like savagely desperate times. The burden we will be placing on this man will age him terribly. It may shorten his life. He will have too much power, too little money, and too much that needs to be done. Utopia isn't happpening with this election. But maybe, maybe, fewer of us will die because of it.

Those of us who knew he wasn't perfect will weather this particular storm just fine. The ones who convinced themselves that all they had to do to fix this nation was to believe and chant and write checks...welcome to reality. Did you have a nice trip?