Pessimism

One side effect of not writing every day is that I got to bed a bit earlier on average since I didn't have to bang out something on the computer every night, in an effort to continue that I am going to try to get posts up before midnight most days, I work until closing tonight so today I write.

I haven't talked about the president a lot in my recent writing, I find it to be kind of futile, I prefer to talk about what he has revealed about the country, I mean the guy lies constantly, lies that are easily disprovable even, he has kept virtually none of his campaign promises and has just generally been an awful person. I don't mean subjectively either, like watching any speech or reading his Tweets shows that he isn't interested in being what we think of as presidential, or even nice, any other world leader would have provoked serious consequences by now, and his policy decisions haven't been much better.

Yet his base of support according to opinion polls never seems to drop below about 35% and that not for long, usually hovering about 38% or so. what that says is that something north of a third of the population in America approves of this shit.

It's demoralizing is what it is. I mean leaving aside the policy opinions and only talking about the personality issue it's pretty bad, it shows a level of jingoism that anyone sane should be incredibly uncomfortable with, these people don't see any problem with Trump's aggressiveness and lack of diplomacy because they don't believe America should have to be passive or diplomatic. Their ideal result of all this would be the USA ruling the world, and since we deserve to rule the world, we don't need to be nice about anything.

It's a simplistic version of their worldview but I am fairly confident with it. It is why I have no confidence that if he is impeached there will be a peaceful resolution. It's a question I have been asking since the election, what happens if he is impeached and just... refuses to go? The question troubles me because of that base of support, does it extend to the entire population? I daresay it is denser in the police and military, what happens if he refuses to go? Are police or army units used to remove him? What if those units refuse to do so? What if one third of those units refuse to do so? Or half? Do we fight about it? How far does that extend?

I realize some might consider this pessimistic, and it shouldn't prevent the investigations from ongoing, or from charges being brought if enough evidence is found to do so, but if Mueller, and the party leaders, from both sides of the aisle, aren't thinking about it then they are even more naive than me.

No one seems to be really grasping just how unprecedented in American politics this shit is and that is also scary, we have to be thinking about this and it has to be center in the minds of those in positions of power. It should be in ours too, because perhaps the chances are low, but they exist and in the next few years we all might have to examine what we will do if the worst happens.