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For those Dems in Despair...Take Heart!





Here is something that I've noticed. The fact is, most of the Hillary supporters were very upbeat and happy before the Election. And the mood for most Trump voters has always been some kind of perpetual gloom and doom attitude towards everything. They walk around perpetually convinced that Armageddon is near. Well, now that the Apocalypse has occurred (at least in Blue America), we need to take a deep breath, take a few steps, and look at the Big Picture from 10,000 feet.

1. Trump has to deliver: On all those promises, both real and totally unrealistic that he made during the Election. And although I understand that he is not a "normal" candidate, and we have much to worry about, he now has to perform. And as Mario Cuomo said, "You campaign in poetry. But you govern in prose". Meaning when it comes down to brass tacks, he must go back to the same old Republican Dogma that has made up the GOP for the past forty years. Tax cuts for the rich, trickle-down economics, talking big on all kinds of military spending, and then…silence. There's no money left for all of his bluster. Especially when he talks about enacting Infrastructure Spending (which, by the way, has been said to look almost exactly like the one that President Obama wanted to enact four years ago!).

2. The Dems in the Desert: It's much easier to be the opposition party. Roll the tapes, please. The one knock I have on this scenario is that Democrats are much nicer and more laid back than the snarling and snarky Republican right-wing hit machine. They need a few fighters, like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, to stand toe to toe with these guys and remind them of the deficit that they've conveniently forgotten, the fact that Wall Street still needs to be checked and not rewarded by doing away with Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Protection Agency, and also that we have almost a 50-50 split in the Senate. So Filibusters still work, and they need 60 votes to pass most of this completely unrealistic legislation.

3. Be more like Obama: We need to take a page from one of the great Democratic Leaders of the 21st Century, one Barrack Hussein Obama, who won the Presidency twice against these people! He was always known as "No Drama Obama" for a reason. It was said that he never got too worried because he believed that things are never as bad as they seem, nor as good. So with that in mind, we need to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and start all over again. (Listening to Katy Perry's "Fight Song" works for me)

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