The Election.

Various news organizations have declared Trump to be victorious.  Given recent history, I expect that now we will enter a period dominated by challenges to various State election results, but it would appear that The Donald’s electoral victory may well be solid enough to withstand legal challenge.  I presume that his political opponents will resort to the same kind of contrarian activity that they did during his first term and the public discourse will remain in the gutter.  I sincerely hope that I am wrong here, but I fear that I am not.  I voted for Trump because I feared Harris more, not because I liked the man.  Hopefully, he will restore our ailing economy, strengthen our defense posture, reduce international tensions, and close the border.  All of that is well and good, but I fear that he will be unable to restore unity here at home and I do not expect him to initiate the kind of economic outreach to the rest of the world that is so badly needed.  In order for that to happen you and I will have to change our ways and I see absolutely no evidence that we are smart enough to understand that need.  In my view, we have dodged an immediate political catastrophe by not electing another sham president, and we have a shot at improving our short term economic situation,  reducing international tensions, and slowing the drift away from the societal traditions that made America the greatest nation in the world, but I see no evidence that we, you and I, will wake to the need to improve the standard of living of all peoples, not just those that live inside our non-existent borders.  In a nuclear world, that remains a serious problem.