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Just when I thought Rachel Maddow couldn't sink any lower, there she is blaming third party voters. I loved one person's comment that went something like, unless Hillary is about to undertake a coup, Rachel, you can stop shilling for her now. I have a more cynical view of what Rachel is doing, and to what I heard on NPR this morning. It seems that the establishment sanctioned, MSM message is to fuel divisiveness and fear. Commenters on NPR spoke of not only fearing what Trump may or may not do but also the perception of what his next moves might be. There is nothing said about the desperation of the great numbers of people who voted for Trump as a means to thumb their noses at the power elite who were certain if they made the alternative bad enough, the poor and working class would vote for their candidate. The DNC, the moneyed interests, the MSM, etc. refused to hear the people's voices, even though Bernie warned them that these American voices needed to be heard, respected and included. Hillary's campaign knew this and disregarded it because it would have been too difficult for their candidate to take up the issues with any credibility and so they formed their message around Trump's character. And the people voted for him anyway because to them, the status quo offered no hope whatsoever.
What the oligarchy does not want us to see, and the reason we are hearing all these mouthpieces spewing fear (in addition to the fact that it sells) and divisiveness is that this election exposed real hope for collective change. Tremendous change. There is a good article at http://www.cracked.com/blog/dont-panic/ that addresses this. We need to rally together with the people who felt so disenfranchised that their vote for Trump was the only option they saw to say, no mas. It is the greatest fear of the establishment that we will join forces across the false party lines and demand equity and justice serving the common good for all people. That is why they will be stoking fear and hatred. Don't listen. Remember the power of the people working to elect Bernie with no corporate money or MSM support. I think he won and even if you don't, we came awfully close. We got this. But we need to come together to get the job done.

Yet he ended up being just another Mother Fu...never mind.

It seems Hillary won the popular vote but must lose because Electors!!

My understanding is that the Founders were hedging their trusting the Ordinaries to make prudent choices, so the left open the possibility of the Electors (un-ordinaries) applying their better judgement and becoming The Deciders.

Well many years have passed, and many things have changed in the interim, but we still have these Electors standing by to save the electorate from making a terrible choice. This would have a pretty good chance of riling up the electorate, who used to wield pitchforks and cudgels but now have AR-15's.

Interesting times, these.