Yes, he won; and he is going to be our President. No, he has not changed; he is still a megalomaniac, and will certainly behave as such.
Trouble is, he's not even President quite yet, and it's already started. You see, Mr. Trump cannot stand being shown as anything less than grand, great, the BEST. So, to win the Electoral College vote, which is the way America works, may be enough to make him President, but it's certainly not enough to make him happy.
Lots of people are complaining about what they view as unfairness in the process of electing our President; they don't understand and certainly don't like the apparent inconsistency in what they think is right. You get the most "people votes", they think, then you should win. Well, they're wrong. The Electoral College was primarily necessary to avoid problems with slave versus non-slave states; without it we'd never have had to fight the Civil War ... but, then we'd also never have been the United States either. The compromise, which is what the Electoral College is, made unity (hence United) possible. It continues to exist because it serves that function, of compromise, in many different situations. After all, we are not, and have never been, a homogeneous people ... we are country and urban; we have ethnic groupings; there are religious populations; educational levels, and lots more. But because of the Electoral College no one group is quite able by size alone to dominate national elections and force its will upon all the others. The purpose of the Electoral College is to dilute the effect of simple majority; and it works; imperfectly, but it works.
Now President (elect) Trump has heard these complaints and, of course, has taken them very personally; and, being megalomaniacal, he simply cannot bear to not strike back. Truly, he's such a broken creature; one has to feel sorry for him. Anyway, strike back he must and has, claiming that millions of votes (all against him) were illegal. This would be laughable if we were not talking about the President (as he soon will be). You see, once he is President he will be in a position to do something about his view of things. And that will not be laughable at all.
A quick aside: In the South American country of Venezuela a dictator (Maduro) rules. He's a pretty bad guy and his country is in a pretty bad way. Some months ago a coup was attempted and failed. Dictator Maduro has struck back, imprisoning many thousands of army personnel, social workers, politicians. It's the usual story, of course; anybody who has ever expressed anything other than rabid support for Maduro is perceived as a probable enemy; and is treated as an actual criminal. They are no longer citizens; no, they are criminals and are imprisoned. Soon, I am sad to believe, they will be dead criminals. That's how these things are done in dictatorships. You know I'm right, because we've read about it time and again in our newspapers; Venezuela is just recent and closer to home than many other examples.
Back to Trump: What I am saying is simply that Trump is the type of person who accepts conspiracy ideas as reasonable and actual facts. So all those fake mothers and teachers and all those news reports about the slaughter of children in Newtown, Connecticut are just a fake to try and discredit the NRA. Trump must believe that because he believes that Alex Jones is a great guy. Alex Jones is the conspiracy guy who denies the reality of the Newtown tragedy and that's just one of his many outrageous beliefs. I guess if you can believe that it's pretty easy to believe in millions of illegal voters, all against Trump.
Now, I think Mr. Trump is a man of action. So, if he believes that millions of votes against him are illegal he will, once he is President, most likely take action. We can only wonder what the end result will be. Venezuela may be a good example of what's to come in the good old U.S.A.
And, he's not even President quite yet.
Trouble is, he's not even President quite yet, and it's already started. You see, Mr. Trump cannot stand being shown as anything less than grand, great, the BEST. So, to win the Electoral College vote, which is the way America works, may be enough to make him President, but it's certainly not enough to make him happy.
Lots of people are complaining about what they view as unfairness in the process of electing our President; they don't understand and certainly don't like the apparent inconsistency in what they think is right. You get the most "people votes", they think, then you should win. Well, they're wrong. The Electoral College was primarily necessary to avoid problems with slave versus non-slave states; without it we'd never have had to fight the Civil War ... but, then we'd also never have been the United States either. The compromise, which is what the Electoral College is, made unity (hence United) possible. It continues to exist because it serves that function, of compromise, in many different situations. After all, we are not, and have never been, a homogeneous people ... we are country and urban; we have ethnic groupings; there are religious populations; educational levels, and lots more. But because of the Electoral College no one group is quite able by size alone to dominate national elections and force its will upon all the others. The purpose of the Electoral College is to dilute the effect of simple majority; and it works; imperfectly, but it works.
Now President (elect) Trump has heard these complaints and, of course, has taken them very personally; and, being megalomaniacal, he simply cannot bear to not strike back. Truly, he's such a broken creature; one has to feel sorry for him. Anyway, strike back he must and has, claiming that millions of votes (all against him) were illegal. This would be laughable if we were not talking about the President (as he soon will be). You see, once he is President he will be in a position to do something about his view of things. And that will not be laughable at all.
A quick aside: In the South American country of Venezuela a dictator (Maduro) rules. He's a pretty bad guy and his country is in a pretty bad way. Some months ago a coup was attempted and failed. Dictator Maduro has struck back, imprisoning many thousands of army personnel, social workers, politicians. It's the usual story, of course; anybody who has ever expressed anything other than rabid support for Maduro is perceived as a probable enemy; and is treated as an actual criminal. They are no longer citizens; no, they are criminals and are imprisoned. Soon, I am sad to believe, they will be dead criminals. That's how these things are done in dictatorships. You know I'm right, because we've read about it time and again in our newspapers; Venezuela is just recent and closer to home than many other examples.
Back to Trump: What I am saying is simply that Trump is the type of person who accepts conspiracy ideas as reasonable and actual facts. So all those fake mothers and teachers and all those news reports about the slaughter of children in Newtown, Connecticut are just a fake to try and discredit the NRA. Trump must believe that because he believes that Alex Jones is a great guy. Alex Jones is the conspiracy guy who denies the reality of the Newtown tragedy and that's just one of his many outrageous beliefs. I guess if you can believe that it's pretty easy to believe in millions of illegal voters, all against Trump.
Now, I think Mr. Trump is a man of action. So, if he believes that millions of votes against him are illegal he will, once he is President, most likely take action. We can only wonder what the end result will be. Venezuela may be a good example of what's to come in the good old U.S.A.
And, he's not even President quite yet.