Darth Vader is back!

Yeah. I know. I voted in the election but unlike 2020, this time Trump carried Nevada. 

Although I am not a Democrat and am certainly not a fan of Biden or Harris, I voted for Harris because she's not stark raving insane. She's not a convicted felon. She has never sexually assaulted anyone. She isn't a pathological liar. She hasn't embraced project 2025 which if adopted, could cause irreperable harm to our republic. 

I wonder if this is what the Germans felt like after the fall of the Weimar Republic during those dark days before the *** took control of the government. 

Harris made a number of mistakes.

1) She spent too much time focusing on how she represented law and order while Trumpw as a convicted criminal.

2) She did not address issues with the economy.

3) She did not address issues with immigration.

4) While she had grandoise social plans, she never explained how she would fund any of her projects.

5) She failed to appeal to the the working class and lost too many black and Latino votes. 

Joe Biden also erred when he referred to Trump supporters as "garbage". Trump capialized on this by appearing at a rally in a garbage truck. This mistake was similar to Hillary Clinton's deplorable comment in 2016. Both of these comments ticked off Trump's base and galvanized his base to vote. 

I now worry that Trump will follow through with withdrawing from NATO, ignoring climate change, and ending support for Ukraine. 

The next four years are going to be brutal. 

Yeah. I know. I voted in the election but unlike 2020, this time Trump carried Nevada. 

Although I am not a Democrat and am certainly not a fan of Biden or Harris, I voted for Harris because she's not stark raving insane. She's not a convicted felon. She has never sexually assaulted anyone. She isn't a pathological liar. She hasn't embraced project 2025 which if adopted, could cause irreperable harm to our republic. 

I wonder if this is what the Germans felt like after the fall of the Weimar Republic during those dark days before the *** took control of the government. 

Harris made a number of mistakes.

1) She spent too much time focusing on how she represented law and order while Trumpw as a convicted criminal.

2) She did not address issues with the economy.

3) She did not address issues with immigration.

4) While she had grandoise social plans, she never explained how she would fund any of her projects.

5) She failed to appeal to the the working class and lost too many black and Latino votes. 

Joe Biden also erred when he referred to Trump supporters as "garbage". Trump capialized on this by appearing at a rally in a garbage truck. This mistake was similar to Hillary Clinton's deplorable comment in 2016. Both of these comments ticked off Trump's base and galvanized his base to vote. 

I now worry that Trump will follow through with withdrawing from NATO, ignoring climate change, and ending support for Ukraine. 

The next four years are going to be brutal. 

I wonder if it would have made a difference if Biden had stepped aside sooner? Harris had a very short time to get herself together, but even so I would have expected more ideas even if they weren't firm policy. When asked what she would of done differently to Biden and she said 'nothing', was a big mistake, it made her look as though she had no ideas or oomph of her own.

I think thinking that people with the same coloured skin will behave in a predictable way with no individual variation is racist in itself. I think Labour made the same mistake with Brexit,they had an expectation that working class people would all think the same. Politiicans, along with many others seem to lump peole together into demographic silo's and then get a hell of a shock when people step out of a silo they probably never knew they were in.

In some ways Trumps victory was predictable, I think Biden let the whole country down, but not stepping aside sooner and allowing there to be a proper caucusus, (is that what you call it?) and debate over who the Democrat candidate would be.

To be honest I wonder why the US only has two parties still? I know it's easy to say the UK does as it's oten a battle between Labour and the Tories, but we do have other smaller parties who can hold the balance of power in a hung parliament, and seak up for those who don't like either of the main parties and can be an opposition to both of the main parties, which ever of them holds power, they can be an opposition to the oppostion too.

I don't really understand how the electoral colleges work either and how they decide if a Democrat or a Republican is thier senator/representative?

The other thing I've been hearing a lot about over the last couple of days, is the effect that Elon Musk will have and some of it has been very interesting. There seems to be a thought that he will try and use Trump to do things like more space exploration and a manned mission to Mars, this could be interesting as it might contain Trump from some of his more malevolent ideas and put his energies into something else? Another flash point could be how Trump and his drill, drill, drill stuff will effect Musk and Tesla, I can see that relationship hitting the rocks over old and new technologies.