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Who would like to give their take on the following election based prediction?

Asked by SecondHandStoke (9522points) April 4th, 2016

If Clinton wins those that oppose her will respond like intelligent and civilized human beings.

If Trump wins there will be rioting nationwide.

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DoNotKnowMuch's avatar

Did I miss something? Did the primaries already end?

johnpowell's avatar

I’m on team Bern.. But I support Clinton too. I will happily vote for either.

I do think that the hardcore Trump fans will lose their shit if he has the majority of delegates but fails to get the nomination. I can imagine that 30% of the backwash staying home out of protest.

dammitjanetfromvegas's avatar

I’ll believe that those who oppose Hillary are intelligent and civilized when they stop calling her Hellary or Killary.

:edit: My answer was based on the general election. Like @johnpowell, I will happily support Hillary if Bernie loses the primary.

ucme's avatar

Damned to fuckery either way.
Your first female president has been a long time coming, an historic appointment, one that will rightly reverberate for generations to come & it looks likely to go to that awful undeserving woman.

Zaku's avatar

My prediction is Sanders is going to win both, corporate media and corporate DNC to the contrary. He has the momentum and the enthusiastic supporters (and the superdelegates shouldn’t be included in the delegate math), he’s the only candidate with a positive approval rating, he polls as beating all the GOP candidates.

If Clinton does win, I think it will be about like Obama – she’ll say she’s liberal, instead be centrist, always be deep in the corporate pocket, and there will be a camp of haters, obstruction in Congress, and anti-Hilary support for Republicans in elections. i.e. It will be used for a continuation of the farce that there is a real story about Republican versus Democrats and a supposedly well-meaning president who can’t do much. It’s the corporate dog & pony (or mule and elephant) circus act, to convince us that it has to be that way, rather than that our government is bought & sold to corporations.

If Trump wins, there will be some demonstrations and outrage and media circu$, but I doubt there will be much if any rioting. Depending on what Trump actually does as president, there may be various chaos. I think world opinion of the USA will dip below what it was with GW Bush. More stupid things will be said done.

ragingloli's avatar

It contradicts reality.
It is not hillary supporters that are physically assaulting peaceful protesters at rallies.

CWOTUS's avatar

With any luck – and voters finally wising up, maybe – we may not need to see either of those choices.

SecondHandStoke's avatar

@ragingloli

Correct. It is the anti-Trump set.

johnpowell's avatar

@ucme :: awful undeserving woman

Care to clarify? Why is she awful? I hear this a lot but when I ask for specifics I usually get bullshit answers.

flutherother's avatar

There is an undercurrent of intolerance and violence in the Trump campaign. I hope he has the good sense to ease up on the rhetoric should he be elected. (I very sincerely hope he isn’t.)

stanleybmanly's avatar

If Obama’s 2 terms are any indication, we know pretty much what to expect from the right with a Hillary win. The thing that will differentiate Hillary’s (now all but assured) term in office is that she has the unique distinction of being the target of relentless wing nut villification for better than 30 years. Together the Clintons have been accused of every crime from murder through treason, all cooked up by Rovelike clones and pimped on the public through the ministry of propaganda (FOX). The Clintons collectively must be the most investigated couple in the history of politics as charge after sensationalist charge is
investigated to death at public expense, only to be declared groundless. Obama’s election was a surprise to the Republicans, but that surprise did not dissuade them from immediate irrational and very transparent demonization of the man and everything about him. All that birther bullshit and the other endless derisions from the singularly most inept and useless Congressional circus in my lifetime. Clinton on the other hand is someone the Republicans have recognized as the big threat to GOP Presidential aspirations since her husband had the gig. Now that Trump has more or less guaranteed fulfillment of the nightmare, those 30 years of hammering the woman as criminally sleazy has had the desired effect, but only on the Republican faithful, frustrated and foaming at the mouth that the rest of us somehow
can’t recognize the devil for what they claim she is.

So no, there will be no sensible behavior or attitude regarding Clinton upon her election, and if she’s smart (and she is) she won’t make Obama’s mistake of coming into office with expectations of rational behavior from her opposition. Unlike Obama, she should let the bastards know at the outset that she knows the drill and is prepared to kick the clowns in their teeth.

ucme's avatar

@johnpowell She’s undeserving because she’s awful, that’s pretty self explanatory.
Now, as to her awfulness & your desire for specifics. Her public persona, one which has been polished, micromanaged & engineered to give the public the best possible Hillary, still portrays her as an arrogant, deceptive, over rehearsed, sound byte spewing robot with an overwhelming feeling of entitlement.

It’s well documented by those in a far better position to judge than me that she has made a career out of being disingenuous, a demanding bully of odious character.
I don’t give a fuck who your next president is & therefore my neutral opinion has no bias, if it looks, sounds & tastes bad, then it almost certainly is.

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